COPYRIGHT, 1870, BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON COPYRIGHT, 1883, 1898, 1904, AND 1912, BY Edward w. EmERSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 710398 PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. I SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE SEYD melted the days like cups of pearl, Or gleam which use can paint on steei, Princely women hard to please, Fenced by form and ceremony, Decked by courtly rites and dress And etiquette of gentilesse. But when the mate of the snow and wind, He left each civil scale behind: Him wood-gods fed with honey wild And of his memory beguiled. In caves and hollow trees he crept The tie of blood and home was rent: The winds took flesh, the mountains talked, Sphered and concentric with the whole. |