Earth Song.
Mine and yours ; Mine, not yours. Earth endures; Stars abide — Shine down in the old sea ; Old are the shores ; Hut where are old men ? I who have seen much, Such have I never seen. The lawyer’s deed Ran sure, In tail, To them, and to their heirs Who shall suceeed, Without fail, For evermore. Here is the land, Shaggy with wood, With its old valley, Mound and flood. Hut the heritors ? Fled like the flood’s foam, — The lawyer and the laws, And the kingdom, Clean swept herefrom. They called me theirs, Who so controlled me; Yet everyone Wished to stay, and is gone. How am l theirs, If they cannot hold me, Hut I hold them ? When I heard the earth-song, I was no longer brave ; My avarice cooled Like lust in the chill of the grave. — Emerson.
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White Ribbon, Volume 10, Issue 115, 15 February 1905, Page 5
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141Earth Song. White Ribbon, Volume 10, Issue 115, 15 February 1905, Page 5
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