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SACRIFICE by RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THOUGH LOVE REPINE, AND REASON CHAFE
Last Line: WHEN FOR THE TRUTH HE OUGHT TO DIE.'
Subject(s): COURAGE; RELIGION; VALOR; BRAVERY; THEOLOGY;
Though love repine, and reason chafe,
There came a voice without reply, --
''T is man's perdition to be safe,
When for the truth he ought to die.'



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