Poem: “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Self-Reliance

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And when I am entombed 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.

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Oh what is Heaven but the fellowship
Of minds that each can stand against the world
By its own meek and incorruptible will?

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The days pass over me
And I am still the same;
The aroma of my life is gone
With the flower with which it came.

1833.

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