Poem: “Eros” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Eros

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The sense of the world is short,—
Long and various the report,—
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not outlearned it;
And, how oft soe’er they’ve turned it,
Not to be improved.

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