Poems (Emerson, Household Edition, 1904)/And when I am entombèd in my place

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"And when I am entombèd in my place"
1774992Poems — "And when I am entombèd in my place"Ralph Waldo Emerson

And when I am entombèd in my place,
Be it remembered of a single man,
He never, though he dearly loved his race,
For fear of human eyes swerved from his plan.