GIFT PS v.7-8 Copy! COPYRIGHT, 1870, BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON COPYRIGHT, 1883, 1898, 1904, AND Iç12, BY EDWARD W. EMERSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED I SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE SEYD melted the days like cups of pearl, A cabin hung with curling smoke, Or gleam which use can paint on steel, 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. The winds took flesh, the mountains talked, And he the bard, a crystal soul, Sphered and concentric with the whole. |