264 FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



like an angel ! in apprehension how like 

 a god ! &quot; and see him confined to a petty 

 round, or filled with ignoble ambitions ; 

 defacing the lovely front of nature, or 

 cramping the souls about him, and soiling 

 all the fair pages that he touches, with no 

 responsive thrill to all the life impulses with 

 which the universe is ever palpitating, I 

 hardly have room to wonder which has the 

 nobler thoughts, or which is the purer and 

 truer channel for the current of the infinite 

 life. 



SEPTEMBER 8, 1894. 



