SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Hitherto unpublished. Written in 1857.

LONGFELLOW
HARPER'S MAGAZINE, Vol. LXV., 1882.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
HARPER'S MAGAZINE, Vol. LXXXIII., 1891.

WASHINGTON IRVING
Read at Ashfield, 1889. Printed by the Grolier Club, 1892.




EMERSON


The village of Concord, Massachusetts, lies an hour's ride from
Boston, upon the Great Northern Railway. It is one of those quiet New
England towns, whose few white houses, grouped upon the plain, make
but a slight impression upon the mind of the busy traveller hurrying
to or from the city. As the conductor shouts "Concord!" the busy
traveller has scarcely time to recall "Concord, Lexington, and Bunker
Hill" before the town has vanished and he is darting through woods and
fields as solitary as those he has just left in New Hampshire. Yet as
it vanishes he may chance to "see" two or three spires, and as they
rush behind the trees his eyes fall upon a gleaming sheet of water. It
is Walden Pond--or Walden Water, as Orphic Alcott used to call
it--whose virgin seclusion was a just image of that of the little