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Excerpt from Verses of the Valley and the Mountains
N 0 one but the poet can realize for how much these few songs stand - how exquisitely varied are the features of nature, yet how fugitive are those we most wish to chain; and how many ?owers of the mind open, wither, fall and leave no sign. Yet, though these pleasing as peets are evanescent, and coy of being pictured, they ever hold their own charms, and you may see and feel them if you will but loosen the eyes and intend the mind, - not anxiously but kindly. Open your senses, and open your heart, to the sweet in?uences, that pulse like music through the old oaks and over the fields of wheat; that bathe the illimitable forest of evergreens like an aromatic dew, and sink to the canyons in mountain-born munifi cence; that rain from the celestial bosom of the morning, and drop like starlight from the deeps of night.
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