...necessary to give depth to the desolation ; I usually feel in sympathy with these lines of Thoreau's : " I will not doubt the love untold Which not my worth or want have bought, Which wooed me young and wooes me old, And to this evening hath me brought." The loss...

...vivifies and controls his own : — " I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern,...chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life ; » Walden : p. 20. I will not doubt the love untold, Which not my worth nor want have bought, Which...

...bend the line which God has writ. I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. , Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life; Of manhood's strength it is the flower,...

...we may say, in Thoreau's words: " I hearing got who had but ears, And sight who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern who knew but learning's lore." These men, and such as they, made garden literature possible for they recognised the infinite beauty...

...bend the line which God has writ. I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; tle feather of snow-white smoke, And we knew that the iron ship of our foes Was stead Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life; Of manhood's strength it is the flower,...

...— as in this stanza : — " I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." It is Emerson who most truly recognized the inner life of this strange being, and who sums up all Thoreau's...

...sensible, and as God is, am wary. I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before, I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around,...

...prejudices of commonplace life. " I bearing get, who had but ears, And sight who had but eyes before, I moments live who lived but years, And truth discern who knew but learning's lore." To everyone there is opened (if he knows it) his own doorway for stepping out into space — for detaching...

...castle during his absence: — " I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before, I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." Below these lines he wrote the verses of Horace : — " Hunc solem et Stellas et decedentia cert is...

...Inspiration " here come to mind: — " I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." PROGRESS OF CULTURE On the last day of August, 1837, Mr. Emerson gave the Phi Beta Kappa Oration at...