'T was one of the charmed days
When the genius of God. doth flow,
The wind may alter twenty ways,
A tempest cannot blow:

It may blow north, it still is warm;
Or south, it still is clear;

Or east, it smells like a clover farm;
Or west, no thunder fear.

WOOD NOTES

JUNE TWENTIETH

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,

the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essential, — these, and the wish to serve,—to add somewhat to the well-being of man.

CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY

JUNE TWENTY-FIRST

For the world was built in order,
And the atoms march in tune,

Rhyme the pipe, and time the warder,
Cannot forget the sun, the moon.

MONADNOC

JUNE TWENTY-SECOND

From within, or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the façade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

JUNE TWENTY-THIRD

THE OVER-SOUL

You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. Benefit is the end of nature. But for every benefit which you receive, a tax is levied. He is great who confers the most benefits. He is base, -and that is the one base thing in the universe,to receive favors and render none.

COMPENSATION

JUNE TWENTY-FOURTH

Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

JUNE TWENTY-FIFTH

MANNERS

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in em

ployment and happiness,—whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs.

CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY

JUNE TWENTY-SIXTH

To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. Me it suffices. It is a spiritual gift, worthy of him to give and of me to receive. It profanes nobody. In these warm lines the heart will trust itself, as it will not to the tongue, and pour out the prophecy of a godlier existence than all the annals of heroism have yet made good.

FRIENDSHIP

JUNE TWENTY-SEVENTH

The whole intercourse of society, its trade, its religion, its friendships, its quarrels,—is one wide judicial investigation of character. In full court, or in small committee, or confronted face to face, accuser or accused, men offer themselves to be judged.

THE OVER-SOUL

JUNE TWENTY-EIGHTH

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Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich. Let me feel that I am to be a lover. I am to see to it that the world is the better for me, and to find my reward in the act.

MAN THE REFORMER

JUNE TWENTY-NINTH

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
As the best gem upon her zone;
And Morning opes with haste her lids.
To gaze upon the Pyramids;

O'er England's abbeys bends the sky
As on its friends with kindred eye;
For out of Thought's interior sphere
These wonders rose to upper air,
And nature gladly gave them place,
Adopted them into her race,
And granted them an equal date
With Andes and with Ararat.

THE PROBLEM

JUNE THIRTIETH

The path which the hero travels alone is the highway of health and benefit to mankind. What is the privilege and nobility of our nature but its persistency, through its power to attach itself to what is permanent?

THE TRANSCENDENTALIST