...In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, always is a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and...

...life-currents absorbed by what is given. "Crossing a bare common," says Emerson, "in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear." Life is always worth living, if one have such responsive sensibilities. But we of the highly educated...

...Sage of Concord tells us that in the Woods — "A man casts oft his years, as the snake his sluff, and at what period soever of life is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth." The wise Appalachian avails himself of the benefit of this Rejuvenescence (delectable word), but does...

...rodents and in a serviceable condition. It looks like a good hunch. — D-4 Nev:s In the woods a can casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life is alv:ays a child. In 'the woods is Perpetual youth. V/ithin these plantations of God, a decorum and...

...life-currents absorbed by what is given. "Crossing a bare common," says Emerson, "in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear." Life is always worth living, if one have such responsive sensibilities. But we of the highly educated...

...Emerson's famous passage appears in his 1836 essay Nature: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, 1 have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. 1 am glad to the brink of fear. ... all mean egotism vanishes....

...unfortunate consequences for any mere earthly attachments: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear .... I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of Universal Being circulate...

...in the cadences of the prose: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a cloudy sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration" (CW I, 10). The differences are also telling. Where Emerson is passive and wholly spiritual, a bodiless...

...notions, holds true for Cummings' thinking, as well 8 Cf. Nature: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. ... I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate...

...synechdochical of the body, may also be collectively owned. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. 1 am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,...