Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LUCK AND WORK While one will search the season over To find the magic four-leaved clover, Another, with not half the trouble, Will plant a crop to bear him double.ON A GREAT POET'S OBSCURITY What means his line ? You say none knows ? Yet one perhaps may learn — in time: For, sure, could Life be told in prose There were no need at all for rhyme. Alike two waters blunt the sight — The muddy shallow and the sea; Here every current leads aright To deeps where lucent wonders be. WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S POEMS (for A Child) Midnight or morning, eve or noon, Torn March or clover-scented June,— Whene'er you stand before this gate, T will open — if but not too soon You knock, if only not too late. Well shall it be if, boyhood gone, A boy's delight you still may own To play the dawn-new game of life,— If what is dreamed and what is known In your still-startled heart have strife. Ere you have banished Mystery, Or throned Distrust, or less shall be Stirred by the deep and fervent line Which is the poet's sign and fee: Be this your joy that now is mine. When comes the hour, be full and bright Your lamp, as the wiser virgins' light! Choose some familiar, shrine-like nook, And offer up in prayer the night Upon the altar of this book. Always new earth, new heavens lie The apocalyptic spirit nigh: If such be yours, oh, while you can, Bid unregretted Youth good-bye, For morning shall proclaim you Man. AMIEL (the " Journal Intime ") A Few there are who to the troubled soul Can lay the ear with that physician-art Which by a whispered accent in the heart Follows the lurking treason that hath stole Into the citadel; — a few whose scroll Of warning bears our safety,— is a chart Of our unsounded seas, and doth impart Coura...