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AL 1323.164 (6)

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AL 1323.164 A (6)

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Copyright, 1880,
BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

Copyright, 1888, and 1888,

BY EDWARD W. EMERSON.

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DELICATE Omens traced in air

To the lone bard true witness bare;
Birds with auguries on their wings
Chanted undeceiving things
Him to beckon, him to warn ;
Well might then the poet scorn
To learn of scribe or courier
Hints writ in vaster character;
And on his mind, at dawn of day,
Soft shadows of the evening lay.
For the prevision is allied
Unto the thing so signified;
Or say, the foresight that awaits
Is the same Genius that creates.