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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode To William H. Channing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Though loth to grieve<br>The evil time's sole patriot,<br>I cannot leave<br>My buried thought<br>For the priest's cant,<br>Or statesman's rant.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">If I refuse<br>My study for their politique,<br>Which at the best is trick,<br>The angry muse<br>Puts confusion in my brain.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But who is he that prates<br>Of the culture of mankind,<br>Of better arts and life?<br>Go, blind worm, go,<br>Behold the famous States<br>Harrying Mexico<br>With rifle and with knife.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Or who, with accent bolder,<br>Dare praise the freedom-loving mountaineer,<br>I found by thee, O rushing Contoocook!<br>And in thy valleys, Agiochook!<br>The jackals of the negro-holder.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The God who made New Hampshire<br>Taunted the lofty land<br>With little men.<br>Small bat and wren<br>House in the oak.<br>If earth fire cleave<br>The upheaved land, and bury the folk,<br>The southern crocodile would grieve.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Virtue palters, right is hence,<br>Freedom praised but hid;<br>Funeral eloquence<br>Rattles the coffin-lid.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">What boots thy zeal,<br>O glowing friend,<br>That would indignant rend<br>The northland from the south?<br>Wherefore? To what good end?<br>Boston Bay and Bunker Hill<br>Would serve things still:<br>Things are of the snake.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The horseman serves the horse,<br>The neat-herd serves the neat,<br>The merchant serves the purse,<br>The eater serves his meat;<br>'Tis the day of the chattel,<br>Web to weave, and corn to grind,<br>Things are in the saddle,<br>And ride mankind.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There are two laws discrete<br>Not reconciled,<br>Law for man, and law for thing;<br>The last builds town and fleet,<br>But it runs wild,<br>And doth the man unking.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Tis fit the forest fall,<br>The steep be graded,<br>The mountain tunnelled,<br>The land shaded,<br>The orchard planted,<br>The globe tilled,<br>The prairie planted,<br>The steamer built.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Live for friendship, live for love,<br>For truth's and harmony's behoof;<br>The state may follow how it can,<br>As Olympus follows Jove.<br>Yet do not I implore<br>The wrinkled shopman to my sounding woods,<br>Nor bid the unwilling senator<br>Ask votes of thrushes in the solitudes.<br>Every one to his chosen work.<br>Foolish hands may mix and mar,<br>Wise and sure the issues are.<br>Round they roll, till dark is light,<br>Sex to sex, and even to odd;<br>The over-God,<br>Who marries Right to Might,<br>Who peoples, unpeoples,<br>He who exterminates<br>Races by stronger races,<br>Black by white faces,<br>Knows to bring honey<br>Out of the lion,<br>Grafts gentlest scion<br>On Pirate and Turk.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=480916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The Cossack eats Poland,<br>Like stolen fruit;<br>Her last noble is ruined,<br>Her last poet mute;<br>Straight into double band<br>The victors divide,<br>Half for freedom strike and stand,<br>The astonished muse finds thousands at her side.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Ralph+Waldo+Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a></strong></div>