For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ✨…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition), p.183, Jazzybee Verlag
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