This poem addresses its subject "if the sages ask thee why, this charm is wasted on the earth and sky," tell them "if eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for Being."
This poem addresses its subject "if the sages ask thee why, this charm is wasted on the earth and sky," tell them "if eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for Being." It ends "the self-same Power that brought me there brought you." Subtitled "On being asked, whence is the flower," FTP, name this poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson about a shrub.
This poem addresses its subject "if the sages ask thee why, this charm is wasted on the earth and sky," tell them "if eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for Being."
“The {Rhodora}”