Friendship
A
ruddy
drop
of
manly
blood
The
surging
sea
outweighs,
The
world
uncertain
comes
and
goes;
The
lover
rooted
stays.
I
fancied
he
was
fled,—
And,
after
many
a
year,
Glowed
unexhausted
kindliness,
Like
daily
sunrise
there.
My
careful
heart
was
free
again,
O
friend,
my
bosom
said,
Through
thee
alone
the
sky
is
arched,
Through
thee
the
rose
is
red;
All
things
through
thee
take
nobler
form,
And
look
beyond
the
earth,
The
mill-round
of
our
fate
appears
A
sun-path
in
thy
worth.
Me
too
thy
nobleness
had
taught
To
master
my
despair;
The
fountains
of
my
hidden
life
Are
through
thy
friendship
fair.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (born May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American lecturer, poet, and essayist, the leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism. Emerson died on April 27, 1882, in Concord. His beliefs and his idealism were strong influences on the work of his protégé Henry David Thoreau and his contemporary Walt Whitman, as well as numerous others. His writings are considered major documents of 19th-century American literature, religion and thought.