![]() ![]() The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying, Medicines stand unused on the shelf-(the camphor-smell has The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters The physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible The soreness of lying so much in bed goes over, The dull nights go over, and the dull days also, Not a day passes-not a minute or second, without a corpse! ![]() Not a day passes-not a minute or second, without an To think that we are now here, and bear our part! To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our Were flexible, real, alive! that everything was alive! To think that the sun rose in the east! that men and women If the future is nothing, they are just as surely nothing. Is to-day nothing? Is the beginningless past nothing? Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you? Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue? To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! To think of time-of all that retrospection! These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes and will always go forth every day,Īnd these become of him or her that peruses them now. The horizon's edge, the flying seacrow, the fragrance of saltmarsh and shoremud the spread of purity it lies motionless in, the long bar of maroontint away solitary by itself. The hurrying tumbling waves and quickbroken crests and slapping The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide. light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off, ![]() The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset. the tiered wharves, and the huge crossing at the ferries ![]() The streets themselves, and the façades of houses. if they are not flashes and specks what are they? Men and women crowding fast in the streets. The doubts of daytime and the doubts of nighttime. the thought if after all it should prove unreal, the yearning and swelling heart,Īffection that will not be gainsayed. The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture. The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure, The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, angered, unjust, a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by: The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the suppertable, they gave this child more of themselves than that, and she that conceived him in her womb and birthed him. he that had propelled the fatherstuff at night, and fathered him. and the barefoot negro boy and girl,Īnd all the changes of city and country wherever he went. and the commonest weeds by the road Īnd the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,Īnd the schoolmistress that passed on her way to the school. wintergrain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and of the esculent roots of the garden,Īnd the appletrees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward. all became part of him.Īnd the field-sprouts of April and May became part of him. and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads. and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there. The early lilacs became part of this child,Īnd grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phœbe-bird,Īnd the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barn-yard or by the mire of the pond-side. or for many years or stretching cycles of years. And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,Īnd that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day. ![]()
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