Page 332, note 1. Mr. Emerson's poem, "The Visit," shows how terrible the devastation of the day of a public man would have seemed to him.
Page 336, note 1. The brave retraction by Thomas Taylor of the hostile ridicule which Punch had poured on Lincoln in earlier days contained these verses:—
"Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheetThe Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew,Between the mourners at his head and feet,Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you?"Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer,To lame my pencil, and confute my pen;—To make me own this hind of princes peer,This rail-splitter a true-born king of men."
The whole poem is included in Mr. Emerson's collection Parnassus.
Page 337, note 1. This thought is rendered more fully in the poem "Spiritual Laws," and in the lines in "Worship,"—
This is he men miscall Fate,Threading dark ways, arriving late,But ever coming in time to crownThe truth, and hurl wrong-doers down.
Page 338, note 1. The following letter was written by Mr. Emerson in November, 1863, to his friend, Mr. George P. Bradford, who, as Mr. Cabot says, came nearer to being a "crony" than any of the others:—
CONCORD.
DEAR GEORGE, —I hope you do not need to be reminded
