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Bibliography: Unknown by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Title
- Unknown
- Author
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Genre
- n/a
- Note Source
- Gazette 11/30/1902
- Note Relating to Cather
- Of Louise Guiney's "The Vigil at Arms," which begins with the lines "Keep holy watch with silence, prayer and fasting/Till morning break, and all the bugles play," Cather says, "The sentiment, calm and submissive to decree as it is, might be Emerson's own."