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QUATRAIN: FATE by RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: HER PLANTED EYE TO-DAY CONTROLS
Last Line: THAT CURSE HER WHEN THEY COME.
Subject(s): FATE; DESTINY;

Her planted eye to-day controls,
Is in the morrow most at home,
And sternly calls to being souls,
That curse her when they come.



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