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Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head

by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head
Above the fields so late from nature won
With patient brow unmoved as one who read
New annals in the history of man.




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I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right

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