GOOD-BYE, PROUD WORLD!
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going homo ;* Thou art not my friend: lam not thinoToo long through weary crowds I roam ; A river ark on tho ocean brine: Too long I am tossed like tho driven foam-; But now, proud world, I'm going homo !
Good-bye to Flattery^ fawning face, To Grandeur with his wise grimace; ' To upstart Wealth's averted eye. To supple office low and high: To crowded halls, to court and street, To frozon hearts and hasting feet; To those who go and those who come, Good-bye, proud world, I'mgolnghomet
I go to seok my own hoarth-stone, Bosomed in yon green hills alone; A secret lodgo in a pleasant laud. Whoso groves the frolic fairies planned, Where arches green tho livelong day Echo the blackbird's roundelay, And evil men have never trod A spot that is sacred to thought and God,
Oh, whon I am safe in my sylvan home. I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome J And when I am strotched beneath tho pines, . Where tho evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the loro and price of man, At the sophistschools. and the learned clan For what ore they all in their high oonccit, Whon man in the bush with God may meets 1832. .-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3704, 24 June 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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