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Updated: May 21, 2025
Lunch was at midday, and then long talks, discussions de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis; and it was surprising to find how many subjects we found germane to our situation. Emerson has told the daily life in verse in "The Adirondacs," adding his own impressions of the place and time.
Here is a curious extract from "The Adirondacs," in which the reader need not stop to notice the parallelism with Byron's "The sky is changed, and such a change! O night And storm and darkness, ye are wondrous strong." Now Emerson: "And presently the sky is changed; O world! What pictures and what harmonies are thine!
This seems to me contained in "The Adirondacs" as in no other work of the philosopher. And to me the study of the great student was the dominant interest of the occasion.
"The fierce Adirondacs had fled from their wrath, The Hurons been swept from their merciless path, Around, the Ottawas, like leaves, had been strown, And the lake of the Eries struck silent and lone. The Lenape, lords once of valley and hill, Made women, bent low at their conquerors' will. By the far Mississippi the Illini shrank When the trail of the Tortoise was seen on the bank.
The next summer the party was formed which led to the foundation of the Adirondack Club, and the excursion it made is commemorated by Emerson in his poem "The Adirondacs." The company included Emerson, Agassiz, Dr. Binney, and myself. Of this company, as I write, I am the only survivor.
The Adirondacs. Occasional and Miscellaneous Pieces. Nature and Life. Elements. Quatrains. Translations. Some of these poems, which were written at long intervals, have been referred to in previous pages. "The Adirondacs" is a pleasant narrative, but not to be compared for its poetical character with "May-Day," one passage from which, beginning, "I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth,"
Here is a curious extract from "The Adirondacs," in which the reader need not stop to notice the parallelism with Byron's "The sky is changed, and such a change! O night And storm and darkness, ye are wondrous strong." Now Emerson: "And presently the sky is changed; O world! What pictures and what harmonies are thine!
They are the outcome of a discontent with prose, not of that high-strung sensibility which compels the true poet into verse. This must not be said without exception. The Threnody, written after the death of a deeply loved child, is a beautiful and impressive lament. Pieces like Musquetaquid, the Adirondacs, the Snowstorm, The Humble-Bee, are pretty and pleasant bits of pastoral.
The Adirondacs. Occasional and Miscellaneous Pieces. Nature and Life. Elements. Quatrains. Translations. Some of these poems, which were written at long intervals, have been referred to in previous pages. "The Adirondacs" is a pleasant narrative, but not to be compared for its poetical character with "May-Day," one passage from which, beginning, "I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth,"
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