...Keeping a simple Roman state, Discumbered of their Persian luxury. I hearing get, who had but cars, And sight, who had but eyes before, I moments live,...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. These changes we already beheld with prophetic vision, for summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable...

...Sympathy " reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism, and the intellectual subtilty it could animate. His classic poem on "Smoke" suggests...more in these religious lines : — " Now chiefly in my natal hour, And only now my prime of life ; I will not doubt the love untold, Which not my worth...

...direct enough. Rhyme he cannot always command easily, though we welcome eagerly such gems as : — "I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers coyly still. Truth-seekers are we all. Contentment with little,...

...little, which is the secret of Concord authorship. Mystical were other utterances of the man, like this : I hearing get who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before ; Moments I live, who lived but years, And Truth discern, who knew but Learning's lore. The neglect...

...age. Let us step across the intervening centuries and ask Henry Thoreau's experience : "I hearing yet who had but ears And sight who had but eyes before, I moments lived who lived but years And trust discern who knew but learning's lore. I hear beyond the range of...

...interrupted." Emerson notes that the biography of Thoreau is found in his verses, — as in this stanza : — " I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." It is Emerson who most truly recognized the inner life of this strange being, and who sums up all Thoreau's...

...this commentary or gloss of dreams. Henry Thoreau's lines which pleased me so well were, — • " I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who had but learning's lore." The question of the annexation of Texas is one of those which look very differently...

...Montaigne, Hindoo cosmology, yea, Buddh himself, with their audacious intellectual adventure ? (From AZ) I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. 1 Hunc solem, et stellas, et decedentia certis Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla Imbuti spectant....

...Montaigne, Hindoo cosmology, yea, Buddh himself, with their audacious intellectual adventure ? (From AZ) I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.1 HD THOREAU. I From Inspiration, perhaps Thoreau's finest poem. i849] NOVEMBER WALK 65 Hunc solem,...

...age. Let us step across the intervening centuries and ask Henry Thoreau's experience: "I hearing yet who had but ears And sight who had but eyes before, I moments lived who lived but years And trust discern who knew but learning's lore. I hear beyond the range of...