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Friday Night Poems :D

Give All To Love
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give 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 high
It 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 not for the mean;
It requireth courage stout,
Souls above doubt,
Valor unbending;
It will reward,-
They shall return
More 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 endeavor,-
Keep thee today,
To-morrow, forever,
Free as an Arab
Of 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 flung
From her summer diadem.

The Bedan Advocacy and Consciousness Enhancement Society (BACES), together with the San Beda Debate Society and The Spires, invites you to "PHILOSOPHY AND PHILIPPINE SOCIETY: A CLASH AND SPARK OF CRITICAL MINDS," on February 21, 2012 from 04:00 PM to 08:00 PM, in Room 33Q of San Beda College Manila.

JOIN US!

Good Evening to all. The Spires is now open for contributions! Guidelines for the submission of Contributions (Literary Works, Photographs, and the like.) are stated here: http://www.facebook.com/notes/the-spires/the-spires-guidelines-for-contributions/161343840594344 The DEADLINE is on Wednesday, February 15, 2012. Thank you and please spread the word. :)

The Spires serves as a medium for Bedans to translate their thoughts and emotions into alphabet of thinking. It is also tasked to promote literary arts in the Bedan community.