| Text of Poem | His neighbors farmed
their stones with hate,
But Emerson saw more
than weight,
saw more than statues
of the dead,
"A stone is a granite book,"
he said.
Stones break plows
and show their might,
and farmers answer
with dynamite.
But the will of force
cannot be done
against the truth,
said Emerson.
Knowledge is more
than laws and books,
he went on reading
stones and brooks.
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| First Line | His Neighbors farmed |
| Original Publication Date | 1962 |
| Original Citation | Limited View. Muscatine, IA: Prairie Press, 1962. |
| Complete Poems | 97 |
| Word Count | 67 |
| Bibliographic Notes | Original Title of The Sage The Stones; Reprinted in the Complete Works as Emerson's Page |
| Observations | Text differs significantly between Limited View and Complete Works; no other publication of poem is noted in Ward bibliography |