forgetfulness but of deepest thought which it is so complete that the almost forgets himself to stone and it seems like an intrusion to ask what the figures mean we feel that they mean all things the style and spirit of the architecture is so pure that when an it he must carry it out as far as the details are concerned nothing can with propriety be added to or taken from them they are things fixed if a man uses the we demand a pure greek and everybody knows what it ought to be to these details in greek spirit to modern needs this is what classic architecture has in modern times to do the who have accomplished this feat in a satisfactory manner in modern times are so few that one may number them on his fingers and scarce need his left hand to do this a man must be a greek and more than a greek he has to live in the past and present at the same time he must be independent of his time and yet able to enter fully into it the and the architecture on the other hand make no such all but impossible demands � or at least did not at the time in which they flourished though it is no less hard for us to enter into their spirit than into the the � perhaps even harder since the principle of the is complex and the ideas which controlled both it and the have told their errand and have past away from the world the being conceived in a more universal spirit to absolute perfection has in it the principle of life it has been the parent of the others and yet green and strong while its offspring have passed into it would be well for us once for all to abandon the attempt to hither the architecture the noble trees yet stand in the old world but their seeds are decayed the that we by this name can only excite a sigh or a smile at its utter want of harmony and use a few fine churches we may have like church in new york but they can be only to foreign works there is nothing new to be done in architecture its infinite as they seem are in fact limited and are exhausted not so with the it is not indeed to be expected that we shall make more perfect specimens than were made two thousand years ago but we may those in endless new this is what and did and new and would always find room the a green and cloud of the folds in soft above the where deeper pines high over arch and the heavy stooping shade there yellow spring in show and golden rods in secret clusters blow there fill the helpless air and chattering black birds hold their gossip by and near i saw the tender maiden hair with the fine breeze born white the though undisturbed by human art has richer treasures than the busy voyage to voyage to i left boston or rather wharf on friday the th of march in the olive m bound for there was a fine strong breeze in the afternoon on which we sailed and when we began to cast off the swung round by the stern see and straining on her � apparently very impatient to be under way and we were soon going down the bay at the rate of six or seven knots an hour always and i suppose it is the same with you and most people have some little scrap or other running silently through my head whenever i am at all excited and as we sailed rapidly down the bay passing object after object i began with the ancient the ship was cheered the harbor cleared merrily did we drop below the � below the hill below the top c die but directly nearly all having disappeared except the hill monument these fragments gave way to s let it rise to meet the sun in his coming c let it be the last object on which the eye of the shall linger c c but had not time to see whether or not the facts of the case would bear out the wishes of the orator before these scraps gave place in their turn to others of a different character among which were certain from don s sea voyage about the c and this from king � began sick oh sick aside or else i ne er trust poison i took but little notice of what was going on during the first three days of the voyage i recollect on the third night out there was much noise on deck the captain and crew being up nearly all the time and a strong wind blowing which caused the to labor so much that i was obliged to hold on to the side of my berth but i made no inquiry supposing that although it seemed very rough to me it was a matter of ordinary at sea they told voyage to me in the morning that it had been blowing a severe gale and that we had been to under a top sail and i then learnt for the first time that to lay to means to take in all sail except enough to steady the vessel turn her head as near to the wind as possible and then let her drift backwards on the fourth though the sea ran rather high the weather was fine and i crawled out on deck as i was lying on the trying to read i heard the captain the man at the for shipping without understanding seaman s duty where did you come from asked the captain from g near sir was the answer i looked round at the sailor he was a good looking young man of about eighteen or twenty i thought 