4. THE DOME OF THE TACONICS. 



Pillar which God aloft had set, 

 So that men might it not forget ; 

 It should be their life's ornament 

 And mix itself with each event ; 

 Gauge and calendar and dial, 

 Weather-glass and chemic phial, 

 Garden of berries, perch of birds, 

 Pasture of pool-haunting herds, 

 Graced by each change of sun untold, 

 Earth-baking heat, stone-cleaving cold. 



R. W. Emerson. 



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