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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

To Campbell

Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

TRUE bard and simple,—as the race

Of heaven-born poets always are,

When stooping from their starry place

They’re children near, though gods afar.