Poems (Emerson, Household Edition, 1904)/Insight

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Poems
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insight
1773958Poems — InsightRalph Waldo Emerson

INSIGHT

Power that by obedience grows,
Knowledge which its source not knows,
Wave which severs whom it bears
From the things which he compares,
Adding wings through things to range,
To his own blood harsh and strange.