Poems (Emerson, 1847)/Eros

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For other versions of this work, see Eros (Emerson, "The sense of the world is short").

EROS.

 

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The sense of the world is short,—
Long and various the report,—
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not outlearned it;
And, how oft soe'er they've turned it,
'Tis not to be improved.