• All the world over, I wonder, in lands that I never have trod,
    Are the people eternally seeking for the signs and steps of a God?
    Westward across the ocean, and Northward across the snow,
    Do they all stand gazing, as ever, and what do the wisest know?

    Here, in this mystical India, the deities hover and swarm
    Like the wild bees heard in the tree-tops,...

  • Let Taylor preach, upon a morning breezy,
    How well to rise while nights and larks are flying—
    For my part, getting up seems not so easy
                By half as lying.

    What if the lark does carol in the sky,
    Soaring beyond the sight to find him out,—
    Wherefore am I to rise at such a fly?
                I ’m not a trout.

    Talk not to...