From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine--
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget -- lest we forget!
a. Rudyard Kipling
b. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
c. William Wordsworth
d. Ernest Thompson Seton
e. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Name the quoted poet:
God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine--
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget -- lest we forget!
a. Rudyard Kipling
b. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
c. William Wordsworth
d. Ernest Thompson Seton
e. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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born
May 25, 1803
died
December 13, 1901
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male
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Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
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Philosophy, Poetry, Nonfiction
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century.
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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