Poem: “The Exile” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Exile

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(AFTER TALIESSIN)

The heavy blue chain
Of the boundless main
Didst thou, just man, endure.

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I have an arrow that will find its mark,
A mastiff that will bite without a hark.

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