Concord Walks
Concord Walks
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II Self-Reliance
“Ne te quaesiveris extra.” “Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.” Epilogue to…
VII Considerations by the Way
VII: CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY Hear what British Merlin sung, Of keenest eye and truest tongue. Say not, the chiefs who first arrive Usurp the seats for which all strive; The forefathers this land who found Failed to plant the vantage-ground; Ever from one who comes to-morrow Men wait their good and truth to borrow….
VIII Nominalist and Realist
In countless upward-striving waves The moon-drawn tide-wave strives; In thousand far-transplanted grafts The parent fruit survives; So, in the new-born millions, The perfect Adam lives. Not less are summer-mornings dear To every child they wake, And each with novel life his sphere Fills for his proper sake. ESSAY VIII Nominalist and Realist I cannot often…
XIX Address to Kossuth
XIX ADDRESS TO KOSSUTH AT CONCORD, MAY 11, 1852 God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. My angel, – his name is Freedom, – Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And…
II Power
II: POWER His tongue was framed to music, And his hand was armed with skill, His face was the mould of beauty, And his heart the throne of will. Power There is not yet any inventory of a man’s faculties, any more than a bible of his opinions. Who shall set a limit to the…
Michael Angelo
Never did sculptor’s dream unfold A form which marble doth not hold In its white block; yet it therein shall find Only the hand secure and bold Which still obeys the mind. MICHAEL ANGELO’s Sonnets Non ha l’ ottimo artista alcun concetto, Ch’un marmo solo in se non circoscriva Col suo soverchio, c solo a…