. Backgrounds of literature. nd thejoy of his intimacy sufl*ered no shadow of es-trangement as the years went by. A walk inthe woods, he declared, was one of the secretsfor dodging old age ; and in an address Tothe Woods he wrote: Whoso goeth in yourpaths readeth the same cheerful lesson, whether 95 EMERSON AND CONCORD he be a young child or a hundred years old. . .Give me a tune like your winds or brooks orbirds, for the songs of men grow old, when theyare uprooted; but yours, though a man haveheard them for seventy years, are never thesame, but always new, like Time itself, or likelove. To t
. Backgrounds of literature. nd thejoy of his intimacy sufl*ered no shadow of es-trangement as the years went by. A walk inthe woods, he declared, was one of the secretsfor dodging old age ; and in an address Tothe Woods he wrote: Whoso goeth in yourpaths readeth the same cheerful lesson, whether 95 EMERSON AND CONCORD he be a young child or a hundred years old. . .Give me a tune like your winds or brooks orbirds, for the songs of men grow old, when theyare uprooted; but yours, though a man haveheard them for seventy years, are never thesame, but always new, like Time itself, or likelove. To the very end this devout lover of Naturelived in daily intercourse with her, and it wasduring a walk in a cold April rain that he con-tracted the illness which proved fatal after afew days of sitting in his chair by the fire calmlywaiting for death. In the quiet place where helies, near Hawthorne and Thoreau, the pinesseem to be always whispering among them-selves; but, alas! there is no longer one who un-derstands them. 96. cs THE WASHINGTON IRVINGCOUNTRY THE WASHINGTON IRVINGCOUNTRY
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