This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...But just put on; And to have April slip her showery grass Under my feet, as she was used to do, In the dear Spring-times gone. I make the brook, my Nile, And hour by hour beguile, Tracking its devious course Through briery banks to its mysterious source, That I discover, always, at my will, --A little silver star, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...But just put on; And to have April slip her showery grass Under my feet, as she was used to do, In the dear Spring-times gone. I make the brook, my Nile, And hour by hour beguile, Tracking its devious course Through briery banks to its mysterious source, That I discover, always, at my will, --A little silver star, Under the shaggy forehead of some hill, From travelled ways afar. Forgetting wind and flood, I build my house of unsubstantial sand, Shaping the roof upon my double hand, And setting up the dry and sliding grains, With infinite pains, In the similitude Of beam and rafter, --then Where to the ground the dock its broad leaf crooks, I hunt long whiles to find the little men That I have read of in my story-books. Often, in lawless wise, Some obvious work of duty I delay, Taking my fill Of an uneasy liberty, and still Close shutting up my eyes, As though it were not given me to see 4 The avenging ghost of opportunity Thus slighted, far away. I finger when I know That I should forward go; Now, haply for the katydid's wild shrill, Now listening to the low, Dull noise of mill-wheels--counting, now, the row Of clouds about the shoulder of the hill. My heart anew rejoices In th' old familiar voices That come back to me like a lullaby; Now 'tis the church-bell's call, And now a teamster's whistlo, --now, perhaps, The silvery lapse Of waters in among the reeds that meet; And now, down-dropping to a whispeiy fall, Some milkmaid, chiding with love's privilege, Through the green wall Of the dividing hedge, And the so sadly eloquent reply Of the belated cow-boy, low and sweet. I see, as in a dream, The farmer plodding home behind his team, With all the tired shadows following, And see him standing in his threshing-floor, The hungry cattle gathered in a ring About th...
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