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Poems
Voluntaries II

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom all winged expands,
Nor perches in a narrow place;
Her broad van seeks unplanted lands;
She loves a poor and virtuous race.
Clinging to a colder zone
Whose dark sky sheds the snowflake down,
The snowflake is her banner's star,
Her stripes the boreal streamers are.
Long she loved the Northman well;
Now the iron age is done,
She will not refuse to dwell
With the offspring of the Sun;
Foundling of the desert far,
Where palms plume, siroccos blaze, 


He roves unhurt the burning ways
In climates of the summer star,
He has avenues to God
Hid from men of Northern brain,
Far beholding, without cloud,
What these with slowest steps attain,
If once the generous chief arrive
To lead him willing to be led,
For freedom he will strike and strive,
And drain his heart till he be dead. 
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