A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers By Henry David Thoreau




















































































































































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Once more to one and all,

     Friends, Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers.

     Let such pure hate still underprop
     Our love, that - Page 162
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Once More To One And All,

"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers."

Let such pure hate still underprop Our love, that we may be Each other's conscience. And have our sympathy Mainly from thence.

We'll one another treat like gods, And all the faith we have In virtue and in truth, bestow On either, and suspicion leave To gods below.

Two solitary stars, - Unmeasured systems far Between us roll, But by our conscious light we are Determined to one pole.

What need confound the sphere, - Love can afford to wait, For it no hour's too late That witnesseth one duty's end, Or to another doth beginning lend.

It will subserve no use, More than the tints of flowers, Only the independent guest Frequents its bowers, Inherits its bequest.

No speech though kind has it, But kinder silence doles Unto its mates, By night consoles, By day congratulates.

What saith the tongue to tongue? What heareth ear of ear? By the decrees of fate From year to year, Does it communicate.

Pathless the gulf of feeling yawns, - No trivial bridge of words, Or arch of boldest span, Can leap the moat that girds The sincere man.

No show of bolts and bars Can keep the foeman out, Or 'scape his secret mine Who entered with the doubt That drew the line.

No warder at the gate Can let the friendly in, But, like the sun, o'er all He will the castle win, And shine along the wall.

There's nothing in the world I know That can escape from love, For every depth it goes below, And every height above.

It waits as waits the sky, Until the clouds go by, Yet shines serenely on With an eternal day, Alike when they are gone, And when they stay.

Implacable is Love, - Foes may be bought or teased From their hostile intent, But he goes unappeased Who is on kindness bent.

Having rowed five or six miles above Amoskeag before sunset, and reached a pleasant part of the river, one of us landed to look for a farm-house, where we might replenish our stores, while the other remained cruising about the stream, and exploring the opposite shores to find a suitable harbor for the night. In the mean while the canal-boats began to come round a point in our rear, poling their way along close to the shore, the breeze having quite died away. This time there was no offer of assistance, but one of the boatmen only called out to say, as the truest revenge for having been the losers in the race, that he had seen a wood-duck, which we had scared up, sitting on a tall white-pine, half a mile down stream; and he repeated the assertion several times, and seemed really chagrined at the apparent suspicion with which this information was received. But there sat the summer duck still, undisturbed by us.

By and by the other voyageur returned from his inland expedition, bringing one of the natives with him, a little flaxen-headed boy, with some tradition, or small edition, of Robinson Crusoe in his head, who had been charmed by the account of our adventures, and asked his father's leave to join us.

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