"Drink, hear my counsel, my son, that the world fret thee not. Tho' the heart bleed, let thy lips laugh like the wine-cup. Is thy soul hurt, yet dance with the viol-strings: Thou learnest no secret, until thou knowest friendship, Since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge comes in."
"Ruler after word and thought Which no eye yet saw, Which no ear yet heard, Remain, until thy young destiny From the old greybeard of the sky His blue coat takes."
INSPIRATION
In the first course of lectures on The Natural History of the Intellect, given by Mr. Emerson at Harvard University in 1870, was one on Inspiration. This probably contained much of the matter in the present essay, which, with the omission of a few sheets, is the lecture as delivered before the Peabody Institute in Baltimore in January, 1872.
Page 270, note 1. See the note on this expression of Hunter's where it is used early in this volume, in the introductory part of the essay "Poetry and Imagination."
Page 271, note 1. In "Natural History of Intellect," in the volume of that name, it is said that "Inspiration is the continuation of the divine effort that built the man." The essay "Nature" in the first volume tells of the instruction of man's soul by the Symbolism of all that his eye sees.
