Laudator Temporis Acti: Things Are In the Saddle

Things Are In the Saddle

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Ode, Inscribed to W.H. Channing," lines 3-6:

I cannot leave
My honied thought
For the priest's cant,
Or statesman's rant.

Id., lines 50-51:

Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 7:07 AM

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