Father Latour judged that, just as it was the white man's way to assert himself in any landscape, to change it, make it over a lit...tle (at least to leave some mark of memorial of his sojourn), it was the Indian's way to pass through a country without disturbing anything; to pass and leave no trace, like fish through the water, or birds through the air. It was the Indian manner to vanish into the landscape, not to stand out against it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sinking like sediment through the day To leave it clearer, onto the floor of the flask... (Vast summer vessel) settles a bitter carpet Horror of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town, Up stairs and doon stairs in his nicht-gown,... Tirling at the window, crying at the lock, \'Are the weans in their bed, for it's now ten o'clock?'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees... Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor, For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich,... And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honor peereth in the meanest habit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Delicious essence! how refreshing art thou to nature! how strongly are all its powers and all its weaknesses on thy side! how swee...tly dost thou mix with the blood, and help it through the most difficult and tortuous passages to the heart!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »