“Pass in, pass in, the angels say,
In to the upper doors;
Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount to Paradise
By the stairway of surprise.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Merlin I http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/merlin_i.htm, st. 2
1840s, Poems (1847)

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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