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Show It is the working of the Original Caus through the instruments he has alread made Thes facts ma suggest the advantag which the country-life possesses for a pow erful mind, over the artificial and curtaile life of cities. We know more from natur than we can at will communicate & It light flows into the mind evermore, an we forget its presence. The poet, the orator, bred in the woods, whos senses hav been nourished by their fair and appeasin changes, year after year, without desig and without heed,-shall not lose thei lesson altogether, in the roar of cities o the broil of politics. Long hereafter, amids agitation and terror in national councils, in the hour of revolution,-these solem images shall reappear in their mornin lustre, as fit symbols and words of th thoughts which the passing events shal awaken. At the call of a noble sentiment again the woods wave, the pines murmur the river rolls and shines, and the cattl lo upo th mountains a h sa an heard them in his infancy. And with thes forms, the spells of persuasion, the keys o power are put into his hands 4 Digital Image © 2005 Marriot Library Unive |
