Ralph Waldo Emerson on Love
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“Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.”
“A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.”
“Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,— Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.”
“The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.”