The sense of the world is short,
Long and various the report,—
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not outlearned it,
And how oft soe'er they've turned it,
'Tis not to be improved.
from: Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
New
York, Boston, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company: 1899. Introduction by Nathan
Haskell Dole.
