...and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.' TWO BIVERS. THT summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the...firmament; Through light, through life, it forward flows. I see the inundation sweet, I hear the spending of the stream Through years, through men, through nature...

...And the fresh rose on yonder thorn Gives back the bending heavens in dew. 272 POEMS. TWO KIVEES. TUY summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the...firmament; Through light, through life, it forward flows. I see the inundation sweet, I hear the spending of the stream Through years, through men, through nature...

...rose on yonder thorn Gives back the bending heavens in dew. t i \ \ < TWO RIVERS. 213 TWO RIVERS. I THY summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of...flit ( Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain. i Thou in thy narrow banks art pent: '. The stream I love unbounded goes ; Through flood and sea and...

...summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the rain ; But sweeter rivers pulsing flit Through thce, as thou through Concord Plain, Thou in thy narrow banks art pent: The stream I love unbounded goes f Through flood and sea and firmament; Through light, through life, it forward flows. I see the inundation...

...light, through men it gayly goes." At last the thought found its perfect form in THE TWO KIVERS. " Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of...firmament; Through light, through life, it forward flows. " I see the inundation sweet, I hear the spending of the stream Through years, through men, through...

...of the rain ; But sweeter rivers pulsing flit Through thee, as thou through Concord plain. " Thou iu thy narrow banks art pent ; The stream I love unbounded...firmament ; Through light, through life, it forward flows. " I see the inundation sweet, I hear the spending of the stream Through years, through men, through...

...which abides beyond the phenomena. Thus in Emerson's Two Rivers: " Thy Hummer voice, Muskctaquit,' Repeats the music of the rain, But sweeter rivers...pulsing flit Through thee as thou through Concord plain. 1 The Indian name of Concord River. "Thou in thy narrow banks art pent: The stream I love unbounded...

...the sun,— the reader can look at Emerson's “Musketaquit.” We have space only for a stanza : — “Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music...rain: But sweeter rivers, pulsing, flit Through thee, than thou through Concord plain.” And the transcendental poet, BW Ball, in his poem to the Merrimack...

...Thoreau a mystic. Resemblance of Emerson's and Thoreau'! mysticism to Schelling's pantheistic idealism. "Thy summer voice, Musketaquit,* Repeats the music...firmament, Through light, through life, it forward flows. " I see the inundation sweet, I hear the spending of the stream, Through years, through men, through...

...stream: truth's current, or time, or human life, it may be (for it is by no means clear), and he sings: "Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music...flit Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain." ("Two Rivers.") This fancy is repeated by Lowell more elaborately in " Beaver Brook," and still again...