Epitaph

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Title:     Epitaph
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson [More Titles by Emerson]

Bethink, poor heart, what bitter kind of jest
Mad Destiny this tender stripling played;
For a warm breast of maiden to his breast,
She laid a slab of marble on his head.

 

They say, through patience, chalk
Becomes a ruby stone;
Ah, yes! but by the true heart's blood
The chalk is crimson grown.

[The end]
Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem: Epitaph

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