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...vanished from my sight...
...Vandals are among us. Yesterday morning the virtuous prayer-goer was shocked at the sight of sundry inscriptions about the entrance of the Chapel, and, it is believed, the matutinal meditations of many were disturbed by the circumstance. We tender the authors of this brilliant joke our congratulations on their glorious achievement. We should like to be introduced to them...
...debilitating. Took a little brandy. At 12 M. saw pretty girl blowing dinner-horn at door of farm-house. Stopped for dinner. Dinner bad. Girl pleasant. Freshman asked for lock of her hair. Started again at 1.30. Walked twenty miles. Startled female peasant takes us for brigands. Soothed by sight of Freshman's pocket-Bible. Enter a lovely village. Setting sun, lowing herds, etc. Both of us a little tired. People stare. Freshman sings Fair Harvard for a bluff. Prohibitory law. No tavern. Ask aged farmer for night's lodging in his hay-loft. Freshman fool enough...
...fires with glowing thoughts. But let us not be surprised if the spirit of Poesy visits us but seldom. Practice may improve metre and the combination of words, but the spirit of Poesy, with her mysterious beauty, comes unexpectedly and vanishes quickly. In silence she bursts upon the sight unsought, filling the soul with joy unutterable, awakening melodies of which only a little echo will reach the world, To those souls she especially appears who, in the melancholy of solemn moments, feel the bitterness of all human experiences; then, reaching out towards infinity, longing for a glimpse of that which...
Thrust muzzles black in sight...