IN OLD CONCORD 103 



Out of sleeping a waking; 

 Out of waking a sleep; 

 Life death overtaking; 

 Deep underneath deep." 



Thus we find Concord to-day an historical and 

 literary Mecca, a fine example of what has always 

 been best in a New England town, holding firmly 

 to the old, choosing, one believes, the best in the 

 new, brooding the past in dreamy persistency, 

 biding its time for the good that the future is 

 to bring. Some day out of its lush meadows 

 and the rich mold of its hillsides will flow again 

 into the veins of men that subtle fluid of flame 

 that makes heroes and poets. It is for this the 

 fine old town lies fallow, and in this shall be the 

 justification for its patience. 



