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

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William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

’TIS not in battles that from youth we train

The governor who must be wise and good,

And temper with the sternness of the brain

Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.

Wisdom doth live with children round her knees:

Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk

Man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk

Of the mind’s business: these are the degrees

By which true Sway doth mount; this is the stalk

True Power doth grow on; and her rights are these.