“United States! the Ages plead,
Present and Past in under-song;
Go, put your creed into your deed,
Nor speak with double tongue.
“Be just at home, then write your scroll
Of honor o’er the sea,
And bid the broad Atlantic roll
A ferry of the Free.”
Here is a thought picture which we may love to dwell upon. Emerson, the descendant of the Puritans, himself a transfigured Puritan, reading these stanzas of his, whose fire is tempered by the weight of thought, in that old town of Concord, where, in his own phrase:
“—the embattled farmers stood,