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As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime; "Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed."
As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime; "Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed."
Approximate author period: c. 1842 AD · industrial
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1842 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 395; printed byline: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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