Ralph Waldo Emerson: Borrowing

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Borrowing

FROM THE FRENCH

Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From evils which never arrived!

Nov. 8, 2023, Striking

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