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A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
Diarist
Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Blood
Stays
Comes
Uncertain
Life
Rooted
World
Lover
Drop
Ruddy
Lovers
Outweighs
Sea
Surging
Goes
Manly

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