...at Carlisle. May 3, 1853, is a date under which I wrote a couplet from Emerson's " Woodnotes," — Twas one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow. — for on that day I first met Emerson. Dr. Palfrey, on finding in our conversations that it was Emerson...

...right moment, but on this day I found myself repeating spontaneously those flowing lines of Emerson's : Twas one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow, The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow. Truly a land of beauty and plenty this, offering...

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...his clear spirit leads him, there 's his road By God's own light illumined and foreshowed. 4 'T was one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow; The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow ; It may blow north, it still is warm ; Or south,...

...own light illumined and foreshowed. T was one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow; The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm; 100 Or south, it still is clear; Or east, it smells like a clover-farm; Or west, no thunder fear. The...

...watch he keeps 90 To spy what danger on his pathway creeps; Go where he will, the wise man is at home,1 His hearth the earth, — his hall the azure dome; Where his clear spirit leads him, there 's his road By God's own light illumined and foreshowed. T was one of the charmed days \Vhen...

...and deeds on the scale of nature. FATE JANUARY EIGHTEENTH Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth ; — his hall the azure dome; Where his clear spirit leads him, there 's his road, By God's own light illumined and foreshowed. WOOD NOTES JANUARY NINETEENTH The genius...

...keeps 90 To spy what danger on his pathway creeps; Go where he will, the wise man is at home,1 lis hearth the earth, — his hall the azure dome; Where his clear spirit leads him, there 's his road By God's own light illumined and foreshowed. T was one of the charmed days When the...

...Where his clear spirit leads him, there 's his road By God's own light illumined and foreshowed. T was one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow; The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm; 100 Or...

...So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. EALPH WALDO EMERSON AMERICA, 1803-1882 5 'Twas one of the charme•d days When the genius of God doth flow, The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow ; It may blow north, it still is warm ; 10 Or...