biteEssays — First Series
Essays — First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
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Dorigen. Stay, Sophocles,—with this tie up my sight; Let not soft nature so transformed be, And lose her gentler sexed humanity, To make me see my lord bleed. So, ’tis well; Never one object underneath the sun Will I behold before my Sophocles: Farewell; now teach the Romans how to die.