 looks like a sachem fallen in the forest, or rather ' like a warrior taking his rest with his martial cloak around him.' I carried Waldo to see him and he testified neither repulsion nor surprise, but only the quietest curiosity. He was ninety years old....  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 399by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
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