GIVE ALL TO LOVEBy Ralph Waldo EmersonGIVE all to love;Obey thy heart;Friends, kindred, days,Estate, good fame,Plans, credit, and the Muse—Nothing refuse.

’Tis a brave master;Let it have scope:Follow it utterly,Hope beyond hope:High and more highIt dives into noon,With wing unspent,Untold intent;But it is a god,Knows its own path,And the outlets of the sky.

It was never for the mean;It requireth courage stout,Souls above doubt,Valour unbending:Such ’twill reward; —They shall returnMore than they were,And ever ascending.

Leave all for love;Yet, hear me, yet,One word more thy heart behoved,One pulse more of firm endeavour—Keep thee to-day,To-morrow, for ever,Free as an ArabOf thy beloved.

Cling with life to the maid;But when the surprise,First vague shadow of surmise,Flits across her bosom young,Of a joy apart from thee,Free be she, fancy-free;Nor thou detain her vesture’s hem,Nor the palest rose she flungFrom her summer diadem.

Though thou loved her as thyself,As a self of purer clay;Though her parting dims the day,Stealing grace from all alive;Heartily know,When half-gods goThe gods arrive.

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