Barn doors and byways . Ill RIVERSF you desire an argument for idealism, saidEmerson, stoop down and look at a famil-iar landscape through your legs. (This, it will berecalled, was also Peter Pans method for intimi-dating the wolves!) Yet Emerson need hardlyhave resorted to so gymnastic a feat for castingover a familiar landscape the sense of strange-ness. There flows through the Concord mead-ows, and neath the rude bridge which spansits flood, the Concord River, incomparable forcanoes, and from the seat of a gently movingcraft on its dark, quiet waters you may see allthat fair New England cou
Barn doors and byways . Ill RIVERSF you desire an argument for idealism, saidEmerson, stoop down and look at a famil-iar landscape through your legs. (This, it will berecalled, was also Peter Pans method for intimi-dating the wolves!) Yet Emerson need hardlyhave resorted to so gymnastic a feat for castingover a familiar landscape the sense of strange-ness. There flows through the Concord mead-ows, and neath the rude bridge which spansits flood, the Concord River, incomparable forcanoes, and from the seat of a gently movingcraft on its dark, quiet waters you may see allthat fair New England countryside through the 42 BARN DOORS AND BYWAYS transforming lens of an unaccustomed view-point— the viewpoint, as it were, of the floorof the world. If you walk with the shade of old Izaak Wal-ton by the bank of a river, in quiet contemplationor busy with a rod, you may fall in love with lifeand flowing streams, but you will not know thetrue river view. You will know that only froma boat, preferably a noiseless, smooth
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