that the first, built by Winstanley on that terrible reef, was, at the top, a whimsical and almost pagoda-like structure, unable long to resist the upward dash of the seas.
Page 42, note 1. In one of the fragments in the Appendix to the Poems he makes Nature say,—
He lives not who can refuse me;All my force saith, Come and use me.
Page 43, note 1. In his second poem on Nature Mr. Emerson wrote:—
And what they call their city wayIs not their way, but hers,And what they say they made to-day,They learned of the oaks and firs.
What's most theirs is not their own,But borrowed in atoms from iron and stone,And in their vaunted works of ArtThe master-stroke is still her part.
Page 46, note 1. This consideration is the theme of the poem "Each and All."
Page 46, note 2. Homer said of the ten years' war around Troy,—
"Thus the gods fated and such ruin woveThat song might flourish for posterity."
Page 48, note 1. "Thus to him, to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and it proceed from one root; one is leaf and one is flower; relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein.… He shall see that Nature is the opposite of the soul, answering to it part for part. One is seal and one is print. Its beauty is the beauty
