New-York tribune., 1867-05-02
without halting, without resi-
Lifting Better up 10 Best


a pleasant narrative of Summer vacation among
tbo Adirondacs with party of friends whose char
oc+ers &c binted al i'm " ord two must have made
the expedition charming.
Wise and pOlite-and II drew
Their several portraits you would own
Chancer had no such worthy crew,
Nor BOccace IN DecamerOn.
The following picture furnishes lively image OF
the adventurous company.
Ten scholars wOnted to lie warm and soft
In well hung chambers dantily bestowed,
Lie here on henOck-bOughs, like Sacs and Sioux,
And greet unanimous the joyful change
30 fast will Nature acclimate her sons
Though late returning TO her pristine ways.
OF sOundings, seamen do not suffer cold;
And, in the forest, delicate clerks, unbrOwned,
Sleep ON the fragrant brush, as on down.bedSi
Up with the dawn, they fancied the light air
That circed freshly i'll their forest dress
Made them TO boys again. Happier that tney,
Slipped off their pack of duties, leagues behind,
At the first mounting of the giant stars
NO.pacard on these rocks warned to the polls.
No dOor-ben heraded visitor,
No courier waits, no letter. came or Went, -,
Nothing was plowed or reaped, or bought OF Soiu'
The falling rain viii spoil no holiday.
We were made freemcn Of the forest laws,
An dressed like Nature fit for her own ends,
Essaying nothing she cannot perform.
Nor are we left without rapid glimpse of the pur-
suits of the travellers in their sylvan holiday.
Ask you, how went the hoursl
All day swept the lake, searched every cove,
North from Cape Maple south 70 Osprey Bay,
Watching when the loud dogs should drive i'll deer,
or whipping its rough surface Tor q trout;
Or bathers, diving from the rock M noon;
Challenging Echo by our guns and cries;
Or listening TO the laughter OF the loon;
Or, in the evening twhght's latest red
BehOding the procession of the pines;
Or, later yet, beneath lighted JACK,
In the boats bows, Observation-Disclosures
Stealing with paddle to the feeding grounds
OF the red deer TO aim at square mist.
Hark TO that muffled roar! tree in the woods
Is fallen: but hush it has not scared the buck
Who stands astonished at the meteor hight,
Then turns to bound away,-is II too Iatef
Sometimes we tried our rifles at a mark,
Six rods sixteen, twenty, or fOrtytVe;
With laughter sudden ms the crack OF rifle
Or parties scaled the near activities
Competing seekers OF a rmOred lake,
Whose unauthenticsted waves we named
Lake Probabty,-our carbunele,
Long sought, not found.
The news of the first success of the laying of the
Atlantic Cable Sjs reaches the friends in the distant
evidences and eXcitesa burst of unwOned enthusi-
asm.
With vemillion pencil mark the day
When of our little fleet three cruising skiis ~,
Entering Big Tupper, bound for tlefOamlng Fans
OF loud Bog River, suddenly confront
Two of our mates returning with swift oars.
One held printed journal waving high
Caught from latearI1ying Traveller, -
Big with great news and shouted the report
For which the world had waited, now firm fact,
OF the wire cable laid beneath the sea
And landed on our coast, and pulsating
With ductile fire. Loud, exulting cries
From boat to boat, aud TO the echoes round 80,
Shah supplement henceforth all trodden ways,
Match Gods equator with zone of art,
And lift mans public action 10 hight
Worthy the enormous cloud OF witnesses,
When linked hemispheres attest his deed.
4. We have few moments I'm the longest life
OF such delight and wonder as there grew
Nor yet .unsuited 10 that solitude;
A burst of Joy, as if we told the fact
To ears intelligent as If gray rock
And cedar grove and cliff and lake should know
This feat of wit, this triumph of mankind
AS if we were talking in "A vein
OF sympathy so large, that ours was theirs,
And a prime end of the most subtle element
Were fairly reached at last. Wake, ecnolng caves!
Bend nearer faint day -moon Yon thundertops,
Let them hear well! Z is theirs as much as ours.
variety of Occasional and Miscellaneous
Poems" )" complete the volume, many of which show
the bappiest moods of the author, and will be re-
garded as the productions which assert the strong
est title to wide influence and the cordial gratitude
of all lovers of thoughtful and noble poetry. The
following is in Mr.. Emersons ancient vein of ideal
aspiration, though clothed in sOftened colors, and
may be taken as an illustrated eptOme of his view