Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

EXCERPT FROM “GOODBYE”
---R. W. Emerson
“Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
I tread on the pride
Of Greece and Rome;
And when I am stretched
Beneath the pines,
Where the evening star
So holy shines,
I laugh at the lore
And the pride of Man,
At the sophist schools
And the learned clan,
For what are they all,
In their high conceit,
When man in the bush
With God may meet?”