Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). Select Essays and Poems, p.97
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