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Suum Cuique

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rain has spoiled the farmer's day;
Shall sorrow put my books away?
Thereby are two days lost:
Nature shall mind her own affairs,
I will attend my proper cares,
In rain, or sun, or frost.




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