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Show P i C 3 A M 3 FROM EMERSON.1 A c.i''i'.. a is :- ft t-i.'Urt- ' ...... .evfc. I Every J - y 1 'a Lr'-ie A'ex- -..j, 0-...'i.Tg ft un-ttfr-' I m Li.T..y. j I T"- nir-ti'.;? f Tee of pr:n:;t.vt j W' : i3 r:...i'-8 L:,t- t r.u.'.iy te re- J Alv w.;j. iv,ry lar-n'-iiSC ili-c Liai-t'i u! A 1. ft-'f t fc.it. 1'ortry m'.'.at L airmt:ve. It U t! e .'.cty ct h.r-.trut. '"liius aaitn ' u. t Ljr l," e.'iuu.d Li.q the .'i:g. Tr.e ;."::!.. j::t w:ii.-n ft na'.iuD re-: re-: ra ra.r-o i'j rv..ti, poetry, li ...:..;!, a:L, tr.iU'.-B uule history, r. ;o t, the wuivd id Tir'D soil; is pra tiie men re reftiy, : r v.r'.jtr; it b .w t.tne to do l".:fe oair le.lcr of ntwa is the po-t. Wi.ru si:i.; lae wuf.d lisieua witli '-.'ju ajifljrai.ui: I: ..it iiuW ft secret of (.t'.d 10 to Lu ; .jti-n. I rtq-i ru thit the should i:i:p:rB tin', l. .at ftfter 1 Lave elm! '.:;e :JK it shiill reoah Due to lUelf, or li.at Lvtk;i'i suouid. As tbe bird alihta ou the hough, l he ii I'luucc into c,e Air aaiu, o li-C iir unia ul i'd 'js uul fur ft ii:. tui'ut in any furm. Tr.ei;.ot (h-corera that what men v.!u( a.s sul-taiiet-a have ft higher value as pyinl-ola; that nature u the immense shadow of man. The i-rayere of nations aro rythmic havi iturationa and alhteratioui, ,ike the marriage service and burial r-erviee in our luurgiea. The writer, like the priwt, muit be exempted from eeculrir labor. ilia nurt ueeiis a frolic health; he must be at Lho tup of nis condition. I'oetJT is the perpetual endeafor to exprew in ?piru in ine uuii. y, the brute K-Jt and searrli (tie life and reason which eauas it to xiet. la rj.it poetry the little chamber in '.he brain, where is eneraled the eiplc-ive force which, by .entle siiLvk?, acU in action the inlddcctual worid '! A symM always atinuiiatcs the in-U'lltjct; in-U'lltjct; therefore' U poetry efer the beet reading. The very design ol imatinatiou is to domesticate us in another, in a celestial nature. The humor of FalstafT, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of tit thoughts and images, us if Shakespeare Shakes-peare h;id known and reported the meu, instead of inventing theui at his disk. Rnymc, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it haa a privilege of speakiug truth which all Phihstia ia unable to i-haltcnge. Music ia the poor man's Faruftwiia. |