Who was its author? Emerson did not write it surely.
When I returned to the hotel, I undertook to place on the wall the weather-torn fragment of cotton which I had picked up at the park.
These words were printed on it:
“KEEP OFF
THE GRASS.”
I decided to mail it to my Japan, requesting my daddy to post it upon my garden grasses—somewhere by the old cherry tree.
9th—To-day is the third anniversary of my grandmother’s death.
I will keep myself in devotion.
I burned the incense I had bought from a Chinaman. I watched the beautiful gesticulation of its smoke.