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# The Service

THE SERVICE
BY HENRY DAVID THOREAU
EDITED BY F. B. SANBORN
BOSTON
CHARLES E. GOODSPEED
1902
Copyright, 1902, by F. B. Sanborn
D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTORY NOTE | INTRODUCTORY NOTE | vii |
| THE SERVICE: ||
| I | QUALITIES OF THE RECRUIT | 1 |
| II | WHAT MUSIC SHALL WE HAVE? | 11 |
| III | NOT HOW MANY, BUT WHERE THE ENEMY ARE | 17 |
| NOTES | NOTES | 29 |
THE SERVICE [ written about 1840 ]
​A Limited Edition of five hundred copies of this book was printed on French hand-made paper, and twenty copies on Japan paper, by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, in March, 1902. This is copy N$^{o.}$
THE SERVICE
BY HENRY DAVID THOREAU
AN unpublished essay by a writer of so richly suggestive a quality as Thoreau, and of so interesting a time as the days of transcendentalism is surely a discovery of some importance to American literature. Such a paper is The Service, a work of Thoreau's early period, written for The Dial but not found sufficiently deferential to conventionalities of style, and too imperious in tone to satisfy Margaret Fuller, the first editor of that periodical. So it happens that the manuscript, long since laid aside unnoticed, now makes its first appearance. Not Nature but Human Life is the author's subject and in a high-phrased fashion, disdainful of the meagre, the commonplace, the cowardly plane of action, he views the possibilities of man, obliterating human distinctions of time and space and presenting the earnest warrior for truth and the high attainments of the soul.
The volume, edited with an Introductory Note by Frank B. Sanborn, will be published about April 1st. It is printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press,
​uniform in style with The Personality of Thoreau, recently published by me. It is issued in a Limited Edition; as follows:
500 copies on toned French hand-made paper, at $2.50 net; 22 copies on Japan paper (of which two copies are for copyright purposes), at $10.00 net.
CHARLES E. GOODSPEED, PUBLISHER,
Number 5$^a$ Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston
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# The Servia

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United States Supreme Court
149 U.S. 144
The Servia
Henry G. Ward and John E. Parsons, for appellant.
Frank D. Sturges and E. L. Owen, for appellee.
Mr. Justice BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

## Notes

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# The Service/Notes

NOTES
Note 1.
From Æschylus, "Seven against Thebes," verse 588 (Paley's edition). Thoreau translated this whole tragedy, as well as the "Prometheus Bound."
Note 2.
This proves that the essay was written during the summer of 1840; for the allusion here is to the extraordinary sight of the gravest citizens of Concord, in that summer,—Squire Brooks and Major Barrett, and possibly even Squire Hoar among them,—turning out to roll a huge ball, emblematic of the popular movement against President Van Buren, from the battle-ground of Concord to that of Bunker Hill; singing as they rolled:
"It is the Ball a-rolling on For Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
Note 3.
This passage occurs in the "Morals," and in those singular "Romaika" or Roman questions, which, to the number of 113, the Chæronean sage undertook to answer. This particular question is, "Why Omens that are called Sinister, in taking the Auspices are reckoned Favorable?" After giving various conjectures in answer to this grave query, Plutarch says, Ἤ τὰ ἐπίγεια καὶ Θνητὰ τοῖς οὐρανίοις καὶ Θείοις ἀντικεῖσθαι νομίζοντες, ᾤοντο τὰ πρòς ἡμᾶς ἀριστερὰ, τοὺς θεοὺς ἀπò τῶν δεξιων προπέμπειν;
That is, "Perhaps 't was because men think that earthly and mortal things lie opposite to heavenly and divine things; ​and thus conjecture that the gods send forth from their right hands what to us is on the left hand." Thoreau takes the passage from the old version of Dryden's day, since edited by Professor Goodwin, with an Introduction by Emerson. The citation shows with what thoroughness the young philosopher read Plutarch. Indeed, the style is colored by his Greek studies.
Note 4.
Greece was much in Thoreau' s thoughts at this period. In some verses of about this date he said of it,
I thank the gods for Greece, That permanent realm of peace; For as the rising moon, far in the night, Chequers the shade with her forerunning light, So in my darkest hour my senses seem To catch from her Acropolis a gleam.
Note 5.
This also is apparently taken from the old version of Plutarch's "Morals."
Note 6.
From Milton's lament on his blindness in "Paradise Lost." Milton, be it remarked, was Thoreau's favorite poet of the English cycle.
Note 7.
From which of the splendidly rhetorical writers of the Stuart period is this quotation? Possibly from Jeremy Taylor, but more likely from Sir Thomas Browne, of whom Thoreau had so high an opinion that he told me in his last illness that he ​thought Emerson would stand, a century or two hence, as Browne did then, in the spring of 1862.
Note 8.
The suggestion of a crusade so often found in this essay is explained by the frequent study made at that time by historians and novelists of the Christian crusades. Godfrey is Tasso's hero, and Gonsalvo the Spanish champion against the Moors.
# The Service Man

* "The Service Man" in The Five Nations (1903)
* "The Service Man" in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918 (1919)
# The Serpent and the Eagle

Perry index 395
* "The Serpent and the Eagle", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
* "The Serpent and the Eagle", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)
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# The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Χρυσέα κλῂς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ

Χρυσέα κλῂς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ
If, when in cheerless wanderings, dull and cold, A sense of human kindliness hath found us, We seem to have around us An atmosphere all gold, ’Midst darkest shades a halo rich of shine, An element, that while the bleak wind bloweth, On the rich heart bestoweth Imbreathed draughts of wine; Heaven guide, the cup be not, as chance may be, To some vain mate given up as soon as tasted! No, nor on thee be wasted, Thou trifler, Poesy! Heaven grant the manlier heart, that timely, ere Youth fly, with life’s real tempest would be coping: The fruit of dreamy hoping Is, waking, blank despair. 1841
# The Poems of Henry Abbey

Poems of Henry Abbey
THE POEMS OF HENRY ABBEY
FOURTH EDITION, ENLARGED
NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY MCMIV
Copyright, 1872, 1879, 1883, 1885, 1894, 1900, and 1904, BY HENRY ABBEY.
PREFACE.
All the poems of mine that I care to retain are collected in this fourth edition, and are now reproduced as I wish them to stand. Some of them should not be here, perhaps; but they have been copied and recited often and are beyond recall.
In the third edition (1895) thirteen poems, beginning with the verses "Delay," were added to what comprised the first and second editions (1885). In the present volume, the nine titles following "The Long Regret" are appended to the contents of the edition of 1895.
Lest the dominant meter might become monotonous, it was varied in parts of "Karagwe," of "The City of Decay," and in a few other instances.
For knowledge of the fact on which is founded the ballad "A Man-of-War Hawk," I am indebted to chapter vi. of the "Memoirs of General William T. Sherman."
H. A.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
THE POEMS OF HENRY ABBEY.
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# The Poems of Henry Abbey/Faciebat

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THE POEMS OF HENRY ABBEY.
FACIEBAT.
As thoughts possess the fashion of the mood That gave them birth, so every deed we do Partakes of our inborn disquietude That spurns the old and reaches toward the new. The noblest works of human art and pride Show that their makers were not satisfied.
For, looking down the ladder of our deeds, The rounds seem slender: all past work appears Unto the doer faulty: the heart bleeds, And pale Regret comes weltering in tears, To think how poor our best has been, how vain, Beside the excellence we would attain.
# The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Τò καλóν

τò καλóν
I have seen higher holier things than these, And therefore must to these refuse my heart, Yet am I panting for a little ease; I’ll take, and so depart.
Ah, hold! the heart is prone to fall away, Her high and cherished visions to forget, And if thou takest, how wilt thou repay So vast, so dread a debt?
How will the heart, which now thou trustest, then Corrupt, yet in corruption mindful yet, Turn with sharp stings upon itself! Again, Bethink thee of the debt!
— Hast thou seen higher, holier things than these, And therefore must to these thy heart refuse? With the true best, alack, how ill agrees That best that thou would’st choose!
The Summum Pulchrum rests in heaven above; Do thou, as best thou may’st, thy duty do Amid the things allowed thee live and love; Some day thou shalt it view. 1841
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# The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Written on a Bridge

WRITTEN ON A BRIDGE.
To yonder gorse its golden glow, And Snowdon sends its autumn rain To bid thy current livelier flow; Amid that ashen foliage light When scarlet beads are glistering bright, While alder boughs unchanged are seen In summer livery of green; When clouds before the cooler breeze Are flying, white and large; with these Returning, so may I return, And find thee changeless, Pont-y-wern. 1840
# The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/πάντα ῥεῖ· οὐδὲν μένει

πάντα ῥεῑ· οὐδὲν μένει
# The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Ὁ Θεòς μετὰ σοῦ!

Ho Thëos meta sou—God be with you!
Ὁ Θεòς μετὰ σοῦ!
Farewell, my Highland lassie! when the year returns around, Be it Greece, or be it Norway, where my vagrant feet are found, I shall call to mind the place, I shall call to mind the day, The day that’s gone for ever, and the glen that’s far away; I shall mind me, be it Rhine or Rhone, Italian land or France, Of the laughings and the whispers, of the pipings and the dance; I shall see thy soft brown eyes dilate to wakening woman thought, And whiter still the white cheek grow to which the blush was brought; And oh, with mine commixing I thy breath of life shall feel, And clasp thy shyly passive hands in joyous Highland reel; I shall hear, and see, and feel, and in sequence sadly true, Shall repeat the bitter-sweet of the lingering last adieu; I shall seem as now to leave thee, with the kiss upon the brow, And the fervent benediction of—Ὁ Θεòς μετὰ σοῦ!   Ah me, my Highland lassie! though in winter drear and long Deep arose the heavy snows, and the stormy winds were strong, Though the rain, in summer’s brightest, it were raining every day, With worldly comforts few and far, how glad were I to stay!
I fall to sleep with dreams of life in some black bothie spent, Coarse poortith’s ware thou changing there to gold of pure content, With barefoot lads and lassies round, and thee the cheery wife, In the braes of old Lochaber a laborious homely life; But I wake—to leave thee, smiling, with the kiss upon the brow, And the peaceful benediction of—Ὁ Θεòς μετὰ σοῦ!
# The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/ὕμνος ἄυμνος

ὕμνος ἄυμνος
O Thou whose image in the shrine Of human spirits dwells divine; Which from that precinct once conveyed, To be to outer day displayed, Doth vanish, part, and leave behind Mere blank and void of empty mind, Which wilful fancy seeks in vain With casual shapes to fill again! O Thou that in our bosom's shrine Dost dwell, unknown because divine! I thought to speak, I thought to say, 'The light is here,' 'behold the way,' 'The voice was thus,' and 'thus the word,' And 'thus I saw,' and 'that I heard,'— But from the lips that half essayed The imperfect utterance fell unmade.
O Thou, in that mysterious shrine Enthroned, as I must say, divine! I will not frame one thought of what Thou mayest either be or not. I will not prate of 'thus' and 'so,' And be profane with 'yes' and 'no,' Enough that in our soul and heart Thou, whatso'er Thou may'st be, art.
Unseen, secure in that high shrine Acknowledged present and divine, I will not ask some upper air, Some future day to place Thee there;
Nor say, nor yet deny, such men And women saw Thee thus and then: Thy name was such, and there or here To him or her Thou didst appear.
Do only Thou in that dim shrine, Unknown or known, remain, divine; There, or if not, at least in eyes That scan the fact that round them lies, The hand to sway, the judgment guide, In sight and sense Thyself divide: Be Thou but there,—in soul and heart, I will not ask to feel Thou art.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/II

​II. The Governor of North Carolina [Richard Caswell] to the Naval Officers of the Ports of that State.
[Circular].
Kinston, 1st March, 1787.
Sir:
I find it absolutely necessary for the advantage of the State to require that you do without delay furnish me with an attested Accot. in your official capacity as Naval Officer of Port Brunswick of each & very article exported from your port in the years 1785 & 1786. I mean the amot. of each article, each year, of the growth and manufacture of this State, and if possible the no. and class of vessels that is ships, sloops, schooners, &c., with the nation to which each certain no. belongs.
Indeed three Copies will be necessary, one to be laid before Congress, one before the Convention of Deputies proposed to be held at Philadelphia the first of May next, and one to lodge with the Executive for the information of the General Assembly. Pray do not fail in furnishing me as speedily as possible otherwise it will be too late to transmit the Copy to the Convention. Any expence attending this measure must be charged to the public.
(Governor Caswell to John Walker, James Coor, Wm. Brown, M. Payne and Jno. Humphries.)
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/IV

​IV. Richard Caswell to Alexander Martin
April 11, 1787.
Mr. Speight thinks the allowance not sufficient as ’tis probable the Convention may sit longer than we at first apprehended & as we are to acc’t he thinks with me, that ’tis best to draw one months further allowance, least we should be stinted as he was at Congress & obliged to run in debt. I have therefore enclosed you a Warrant for one months further allowance & as I presume you will not set out as soon as you mentioned you may have time to collect it.
* ↑ North Carolina State Records, Vol. XX, pp. 666-7.
* ↑ Allowance for three months had been previously granted.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CXXXVI

​ⅭⅩⅩⅩⅥ. Benjamin Franklin to Mr Grand.
Philada. Oct. 22 — 87.
I send you enclos’d the propos’d new Federal Constitution for these States. I was engag’d 4 Months of the last Summer in the Convention that form’d it. It is now sent by Congress to the several States for their Confirmation. If it succeeds, I do not see why you might not in Europe carry the Project of good Henry the 4th into Execution, by forming a Federal Union and One Grand Republick of all its different States & Kingdoms; by means of a like Convention; for we had many Interests to reconcile.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CXXXVIII

​ⅭⅩⅩⅩⅧ. James Madison to Edmund Pendleton.
New York Octr. 28. 1787.
I have recd. and acknowledge with great pleasure your favor of the 8th. inst: The remarks which you make on the Act of the Convention appear to me to be in general extremely well founded. Your criticism on the clause exempting vessels bound to or from a ​State from being obliged to enter &c. in another is particularly so. This provision was dictated by the jealousy of some particular States, and was inserted pretty late in the Session. The object of it was what you conjecture. The expression is certainly not accurate.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CXXXVIIa

​ⅭⅩⅩⅩⅦa. James Madison to William Short.
New York Octr. 24. 1787
The paper which I enclose for Mr. Jefferson will shew you the result of the Convention. The nature of the subject, the diversity of human opinion, and the collision of local interests, and of the pretensions of the large & small States, will not only account for the length of time consumed in the work, but for the irregularities which will be discovered in its structure and form.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/IX

​IX. James Madison to Thomas Jefferson
Philada. May 15th. 1787
Monday last was the day for the meeting of the Convention. The number as yet assembled is but small. Among the few is Genl Washington who arrived on sunday evening amidst the acclamations of the people, as well as more sober marks of the affection and veneration which continues to be felt for his character. The Governor Messrs. Wythe & Blair, and Docr. McClurg are also here. Col. Mason is to be here in a day or two. There is a prospect of a pretty full meeting on the whole, though there is less punctuality in the outset than was to be wished. Of this the late bad weather has been the principal cause. I mention these circumstances because it is possible, this may reach you before you hear from me through any other channel, and I add no others because it is merely possible.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CXXXV

​ⅭⅩⅩⅩⅤ. George Washington to James Madison.
Mount Vernon, 22 October, 1787.
Mr. C. Pinckney is unwilling, (I perceive by the enclosures contained in your favor of the 13th,) to lose any fame that can be acquired by the publication of his sentiments.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/I

​I. Resolution of Congress
1787, February 21.
Whereas there is provision in the Articles of Confederation & perpetual Union for making alterations therein by the Assent of a Congress of the United States and of the legislatures of the several States; And whereas experience hath evinced that there are defects in the present Confederation, as a mean to remedy which several
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCXL

​ⅭⅭⅩⅬ. James Madison in the House of Representatives.
May 15, 1789.
The constitution, as had already been observed, places the power in the House of originating money bills. The principal reason why the constitution had made this distinction was, because they were chosen by the People, and supposed to be best acquainted with their interests, and ability. In order to make them more particularly acquainted with these objects, the democratic branch of the Legislature consisted of a greater number, and were chosen for a shorter period, so that they might revert more frequently to the mass of the People.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCXLI

​ⅭⅭⅩⅬⅠ. Debate in the House of Representatives.
May 19, 1789.
Mr. Smith said, he had doubts whether the officer could be removed by the President. He apprehended he could only be removed by an impeachment before the Senate, and that, being once in office, he must remain there until convicted upon impeachment. …
Mr. Madison did not concur with the gentleman in his interpretation of the constitution. What, said he, would be the consequence of such construction? It would in effect establish every officer of the Government on the firm tenure of good behaviour; not the heads of departments only, but all the inferior officers of those departments, would hold their offices during good behavior, and that to be judged of by one branch of the Legislature only on the impeachment of the other. …
It is very possible that an officer who may not incur the displeasure of the President, may be guilty of actions that ought to forfeit his place. The power of this House may reach him by the means of an impeachment, and he may be removed even against the will of the President; so that the declaration in the constitution, was intended as a supplemental security for the good behavior of the public
But why, it may be asked, was the Senate joined with the President in appointing to office, if they have no responsibility? I answer, merely for the sake of advising, being supposed, from their nature, better acquainted with the characters of the candidates than an individual;
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCXLII

​ⅭⅭⅩⅬⅡ. Debate in House of Representatives.
June 8, 1789.
Mr. Madison.The first of these amendments relates to what may be called a bill of rights. I will own that I never considered this provision so essential to the federal constitution, to make it improper to ratify it, until such an amendment was added; at the same time, I always conceived, that in a certain form, and to a certain extent, such a provision was neither improper nor altogether useless. …
Mr. Sherman.—I do not suppose the constitution to be perfect, nor do I imagine if Congress and all the Legislatures on the continent were to revise it, that their united labors would make it perfect. I do not expect any perfection on this side the grave in the works of man; but my opinion is, that we are not at present in circumstances to make it better. It is at wonder that there has been such unanimity in adopting it, considering the ordeal it had to undergo; and the unanimity which prevailed at its formation is equally astonishing; amidst all the members from the twelve States present at the federal convention, there were only three who did not sign the instrument to attest their opinion of its goodness.