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He needs no ship to cross the tide, Who, in the lives about him, sees Fair window - prospects opening wide

O'er history's fields on every side, To Ind and Egypt, Rome and Greece.

Whatever moulds of various brain

E'er shaped the world to weal or

woe,

Whatever empires' wax and wane To him that hath not eyes in

vain,

Our village-microcosm can show.

Come back our ancient walks to tread, 31

Dear haunts of lost or scattered friends,

Old Harvard's scholar-factories red,

Where song and smoke and laugh

ter sped

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Where a twin sky but just before The nights to proctor - haunted Deepened, and double swallows

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Its slopes of long-tamed green be- Clear-edged the lines of roof and

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The Charles his steel-blue sickle The moon-flood creeps more wide crooks.

and wide;

Up a ridged beach of cloudy gray,

Where, as the cloudbergs east- Curved round the east as round a

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tide.

From glow to gloom the hillsides It slips and spreads its gradual

shift

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For years thrice three, wise Hor-
ace said,

A poem rare let silence bind;
And love may ripen in the shade,
Like ours, for nine long seasons
laid

In deepest arches of the mind. 100

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She did not set us moral theses, And scorned to have her sweet caprices

Come back! Not ours the Old Strait-waistcoated in you or me.

World's good,

The Old World's ill, thank God, I, who take root and firmly cling,

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At noon the slumberous poppies The flightiest maid that ever hov. over,)

ered

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Was something hidden from mine To me your thought-webs fine dis

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An hour they pitch their shifting The conscience of the changeful tents

seasons,

In thoughts, in feelings, and The Will that in the planets rea

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SELF-STUDY

A PRESENCE both by night and day,

PICTURES FROM APPLE

DORE

I

That made my life seem just be- A HEAP of bare and splintery

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It seemed to brush me with its No island, but rather the skeleton

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Bathed I, I heard a mermaid's Of a wrecked and vengeance-smit

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Gasping under titanic ferns;
Ribs of rock that seaward jut,
Granite shoulders and boulders
and snags,

Who was the nymph? Nay, I will Round which, though the winds in

heaven be shut,

see, Methought, and I will know her The nightmared ocean murmurs

near;

If such, divined, her charm can be, | Seen and possessed, how triply dear!

So every magic art I tried,

and yearns,

Welters, and swashes, and tosses, and turns,

And the dreary black seaweed lolls and wags;

Only rock from shore to shore,

And spells as numberless as Only a moan through the bleak

sand,

Until, one evening, by my side

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I saw her glowing fulness stand.

I turned to clasp her, but 'Farewell,'

clefts blown,

With sobs in the rifts where the

coarse kelp shifts,

Falling and lifting, tossing and drifting,

And under all a deep, dull roar, 20

Parting she sighed,' we meet no Dying and swelling, forevermore,—

more;

Not by my hand the curtain fell

That leaves you conscious, wise,

and poor.

Rock and moan and roar alone,
And the dread of some nameless

thing unknown,
These make Appledore.

Since you have found me out, I These make Appledore by night:

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All you have read of, fancied, (The cellars where once stood a village, men say,)

dreamed, When you waked at night because Huddling for warmth, and never

you screamed,

There they lie for half a mile, Jumbled together in a pile,

grew

30 Tall enough for a peep at the sea;

And (though you know they never once stir)

If you look long, they seem to be moving

A general dazzle of open blue; A breeze always blowing and play. ing rat-tat

With the bow of the ribbon round your hat;

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Just as plainly as plain can be,
Crushing and crowding, wading A score of sheep that do nothing

and shoving

Out into the awful sea,

but stare

Up or down at you everywhere;

Where you can hear them snort Three or four cattle that chew the

and spout

cud

With pauses between, as if they Lying about in a listless despair; A medrick that makes you look

were listening,

Then tumult anon when the surf breaks glistening

In the blackness where they wal low about.

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as lead,

Splits the water with sudden thud;

All this you would scarcely com- This is Appledore by day.

prehend,

Should you see the isle on a sunny

day;

A common island, you will say ; 70 But stay a moment: only climb

Then it is simple enough in its Up to the highest rock of the isle,

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Stand there alone for a little while, And with gentle approaches it grows sublime,

Dilating slowly as you win

A sense from the silence to take it in.

So wide the loneness, so lucid the air,

The granite beneath you so sav. agely bare,

You well might think you were looking down

From some sky-silenced mountain's crown, 80

Whose waist-belt of pines is wont to tear

Locks of wool from the topmost cloud.

Only be sure you go alone,

That crouch in hollows where they | For

may,

Grandeur proud,

is inaccessibly

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