Page:Poems of nature, Thoreau, 1895.djvu/33

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INSPIRATION
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I'll fathom hell or climb to heaven,
And yet esteem that cheap which love has bought.


Fame cannot tempt the bard
Who's famous with his God,
Nor laurel him reward
Who has his Maker's nod.