The Ponds
heir
diso earn turning of a cock or
dra devilish Iron horse, whose ear-rending
neig town, he Boiling Spring
, and is t he woods on
alden s trojan housand men in his belly,
introduced by mercenary Greeks! rys champion,
to meet t and t an
avenging lance beted pest?
Neverters I have known, perhaps alden
, and best preserves its purity. Many men have been
likened to it, but fe he woodchoppers
t, and the Irish have
built ties by it, and ts
border, and t once, it is itself
uncer whe
c acquired one permanent er
all its ripples. It is perennially young, and I may stand and see a
sly to pick an insect from its surface as of
yore. It struck me again tonig seen it almost
daily for more ty years -- he same
I discovered so many years ago; w
do er anots shore as
lustily as ever; t is o its surface t
is to itself and its
Maker, ay, and it may be to me. It is the work of a brave man
surely, in h his
in , and in his will
bequeat to Concord. I see by its face t it is visited by
tion; and I can almost say, alden, is it you?
It is no dream of mine,
to ornament a line;
I cannot come nearer to God and heaven
to alden even.
I am its stony shore,
And t passes oer;
In the hollow of my hand
Are its er and its sand,
And its deepest