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Identify the lines taken from the poem 'Brahma' written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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- 1'Mine and yours; Mine, not yours. Earth endures; Stars abide-Shine down in the old sea; Old are the shores; But where are old men? I who have seen much, Such have I never seen.'
- 2'They reckon ill who leave me out, When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, I am the hymn the Brahmin sings.'✓
- 3'They called me theirs, Who so controlled me; Yet every one Wished to stay, and is gone, How am I theirs, If they cannot hold me, But I hold them?'
- 4'Where are these men? Asleep beneath their grounds: And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough. Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is Who steer the plough, but cannot steer Clear of the grave.'
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'They reckon ill who leave me out, When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, I am the hymn the Brahmin sings.'
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