20 IN THE ACADIAN LAND. 



In her sonnet on "Trees" Mrs. Hemans 

 writes thus : 



"And ye are strong to shelter ! All weak things, 

 All that need a home and covert, love your shade ! " 



Says Cowper of the "Woods " : 



" Meditation here 



May think down hours to moments. Here the heart 

 May give a useful lesson to the head 

 And learning wiser grow without his books." 



Emerson quits the city for the country and 

 celebrates his escape in a poem, in part running 

 thus : 



" Good-by, proud world, I 'm going home ; 

 I go to seek my own hearthstone 

 Bosomed in yon green hills alone ; 

 A secret lodge in a pleasant land, 

 Whose groves the frolic fairies planned 

 Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home 

 I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome ! 

 And when I am stretched beneath the pine*, 

 Where the evening star so holy shines, 

 I laugh at the lore and pride of man, 

 At the sophist's school and the learned clan ; 

 For what are they all in their high conceit, 

 When man in the bush with God may meet ? " 



Swinburne, in his " Palace of Pan," touches 

 this inspiring theme in forceful and moving 

 verse. Here follows a stanza or two that will 

 indicate their quality and merit to those who 



