Self-Reliance
"Every heart vibrates to that iron string."
Our purpose
its
claims
door-post whim
college
of fools
to scatter
your force
prison-uniform
decreed
by
nature
which you
step
in
as into water
by
leaving
theory
and
reading
backwards
you
become
without
parallax
poise and orbit
a docile one
(from The Portable Emerson)
