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its votary. This blighting experience is very 

 happily expressed by Emerson, thus : 



" Our eyes 



Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars, 

 And strangers to the mystic beast and bird, 

 And strangers to the plant and to the mine. 

 The injured elements say ' Not in us ; ' 

 And night and day, ocean and continent, 

 Fire, plant, and mineral, say ' Not in us,' 

 And haughtily return us stare for stare ; 

 For we invade them impiously for gain ; 

 We devastate them unreligiously, 

 And coldly ask their pottage, not their love. 

 Therefore they shove us from them, yield to us 

 Only what to our griping toil is due. 

 But the sweet affluence of love and song, 

 The rich results of the divine contents 

 Of man and earth, of world, and loved and lover, 

 The nectar and ambrosia, are withheld ; 

 And in the midst of spoils and slaves, we thieves 

 And pirates of the universe, shut out 

 Daily to a more thin and outward rind, 

 Turn pale and starve." 



THE END. 



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