...shade, Of sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued; For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou ; The wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated, unaflied,...

...shade, Of sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou ; The wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated, unaffied,...

...Of sound and echo, man and maid ; The land reflected in the flood; Body with shadow still pursued. For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou : The wood and wave each other know. Not unrelated, unaffied,...

...shade, Of sound and echo, man and maid, The land reflected in the flood, Body with shadow still pursued. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. PREFACE, ALLEGORICAL PORTRAITS OF NATURE; VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL CHARACTERS....

...that fade. Immortal youth returns.0 GALAHAD (drawing a long breath). How beautiful ! THE ANCIENT. " Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle...carves the bow of Beauty there. And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." ZOILUS. Peccavi ! THE ANCIENT. Then I will lock up my half-unbolted thunders....

...in carving whales' teeth with designs of rough and unmistakable charm. But where is beauty absent ? Thou canst not wave thy staff in air Or dip thy paddle...carves the bow of beauty there And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake. In these lodges the men in summer went about naked as the woodland deities themselves,...

...these exquisite effects ; — CHASING PRODUCED BY WAVES. 233 " Thou canst not wave thy staff in the air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the hrow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." Now, all that we have said regarding...

...this object of beauty, sometimes by that, but yet more by the complex mass of glory of the universe. " For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune ; Whether she work on land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle...

...earnest will, The world is full of rocks which need thy skill. 0! to w X I NOTES ON NATURAL SCENERY. Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme...of beauty there. And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. RW EMERSON. Picturesqueness is the characteristic of natural scenery. The beauty which results...

...ideal beauty, that purest discovery of the soul, but in song he always recognized its visible reality. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with...of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. But, as I say, the recantation of beauty, by transcendentalists, realists, and impressionists...