in Conduct of Life, is an appeal to every one to respect the sanctity of a new morning and not to cloud it with complaints and cares.
Page 286, note 2.
"By all means use sometimes to be alone;Salute thyself, see what thy soul doth wear;Dare to look in thy chest, for 't is thine own,And tumble up and down what thou find'st there.Who cannot rest till he good fellows find,He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind."George Herbert, "The Church Porch."
Page 287, note 1. In the poems, "My Garden," Waldeinsamkeit," "April" and "The Walk," Mr. Emerson hints at these oracles which the rightly attuned ear may catch.
Page 287, note 2. These lines are probably Mr. Emerson's own.
Page 288, note 1. Mr. Emerson cared little for music, but the AEolian harp made by his brother-in-law, Dr. Jackson, gave him constant delight. He placed it in his western window and let the wind sing to him to the accompaniment of his harp and the pines behind his study. In the first form of his poem "May-Day" he introduced a long passage about the harp, which he later printed as a separate poem. This, and another called "Maiden Speech of the AEolian Harp," which accompanied the gift of one to his daughter and her husband, are found in the Poems.
He loved to watch and wake When the wing of the south-wind whipt the lake And the glassy surface in ripples brake And fled in pretty frowns away Like the flitting boreal lights, Rippling roses in northern nights,
