Monday, January 13, 2003

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Rating: ★3.1

Why should I keep holiday,
When other men have none?
Why but because when these are gay,
I sit and mourn alone.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
alone holiday
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Ratnakar Mandlik 20 November 2016

A short and sweet query in accordance with human nature and it's instincts.

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Gangadharan Nair Pulingat 20 May 2014

I feel the deep rooted commitment to humanity of Emerson poems and this is exemplary in few lines.

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