LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Frontispiece

From a daguerreotype taken in 1859, in the pos-
session of the farmily

CENTRAL PART OF CONCORD, 1839

Drawn by J. W. Barber, and engraved by J.
Downes for Barber's Historical Collections"

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I

THE POET

A MOODY child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray:
They overleapt the horizon's edge,
Searched with Apollo's privilege;

Through man, and woman, and sea, and star
Saw the dance of nature forward far;

Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times

Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes.