and so omitted any. The editor has, however, ventured to supply them from the poems or fragments of verse.
Page 168, note 1. Dr. Holmes, in his interesting chapter on Emerson's poems, quotes this prose sentence from the "Works and Days," and then says, "Now see the thought in full dress," and gives the poem "Days," adding the comment, "Cinderella at the fireside, and Cinderella at the prince's ball!"
This image of the masquerading days appears also in "May-Day," and in a youthful poem, never printed, and also in several essays or lectures; for instance: "The Times are the Masquerade of the Eternities, trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; … the quarry out of which the genius of to-day is building up the Future."
Page 170, note 1. In the original form this sentence ran: "One must look long before he finds the Timaeus weather; but at last the high, cold, silent morning arrives, the early dawn," etc.
Page 171, note 1.
Yet whirl the glowing wheels once more, And mix the bowl again; Seethe, Fate! the ancient elements, Heat, cold, wet, dry, and peace and pain.
Let war and trade and creeds and songBlend, ripen race on race,The sunburnt world a man shall breedOf all the zones and countless days."Song of Nature," Poems.
Page 171, note 2. Milton, Paradise Lost, IV. 477.
Page 172, note 1. "The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament. … On the instant, and incessantly, fall
