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Excerpt from Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist: With Memorial Verses Silent and serene, The plastic soul emancipates her kind. She leaves the generations to their fate, Uncompromised by grief. She cannot weep: She sheds no tears for us,-our mother, Nature! She is ne'er rude nor vexed, not rough or careless; Out of temper ne'er, patient as sweet, though winds In winter brush her leaves away, and time To human senses breathes through frost. My friend! Learn, from the joy of Nature, thus to be: Not only all resigned to thy worst fears, But, like herself, superior to them all! Nor merely superficial in thy smiles; And through the inmost fibres of thy heart May goodness flow, and fix in that The ever-lapsing tides, that lesser depths Deprive of half their salience. Be, throughout, True as the inmost life that moves the world, And in demeanor show a firm content, Annihilating change. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.