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What is the chief element he employs? |
He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. |
But here is an artist. |
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Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever. |
try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. |
Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, |
—stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. |
Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries |
There is magic in it. |
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. |
Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. |
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Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those
ships attract them thither? |
Yet here they all unite. |
Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues—north, east, south, and west. |
And there they stand—miles of them—leagues. |
No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. |
Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the
land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice... |
But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive. |
