O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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