Poems (Emerson, 1847)/Suum Cuique

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For works with similar titles, see Suum Cuique.

SUUM CUIQUE.

 

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The rain has spoiled the farmer's day;
Shall sorrow put my books away?
Thereby are two days lost:
Nature shall mind her own affairs;
I will attend my proper cares,
In rain, or sun, or frost.