THE POET
"He seems to avoid—even to flee from us,—
To seek something which we know not,
And perhaps he himself after all knows not."—Ibid.
Oct 26.
"His eye hardly rests upon the earth;
His ear hears the one-clang of nature;
What history records,—what life gives,—
Directly and gladly his genius takes it up:
His mind collects the widely dispersed,