The Flute

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Title:     The Flute
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson [More Titles by Emerson]

FROM HILALI

Hark, what, now loud, now low, the pining flute complains,
Without tongue, yellow-cheeked, full of winds that wail and sigh;
Saying, Sweetheart! the old mystery remains,--
If I am I; thou, thou; or thou art I?

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

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