The strong gods pine for my abode,
And pine in vain the sacred seven;
But thou, meek lover of the good!
Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
This first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, (No. 1) November, 1857.
Damn, Ah!
An exclamation to the tortoise-shell cat which sings so diabolically under my window by night.
If the grey tom cat think he sing