• As one advances up the slow ascent
    Along the pathway in the woods, the trees
    Change aspect, nor alone in this, but change
    In stature and in power till Solitude
    Seems cut out of the ancient forest. Here
    Was Solitude! where man had lived of old,
    Loved, serving God, and built himself a home.
    Man smooths an acre on the rolling earth,
    ...