“If so men’s memories not thy monument be
Thou shalt have none. Warm hearts, and not cold stone,
Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie unknown.
Marbles keep not themselves; how then keep thee?”
“Upon a closet shelf I have some things–
A tea set, dolls, a treasured book or so
That down the years a fragrant memory flings
Of one dead long ago.
And at their touch I walk with springs divine;
From out the silence one is by my side,
A little maid whose hand has slipped from mine
My childish self that died.”
One who knew the sage well, said, “There is one quality I notice in Emerson as more striking than in any one else I ever saw, and that was the effect he had upon all who came into his presence. It seemed as if when a man had looked into his eyes, he was immediately put at his best, and acquitted himself on the highest plane possible.” The personality of Emerson had in it a quality which inspired others to do their best. An incident in the Acts tells us that in the early days of the Church, in times of great blessing, people even carried out the sick into the streets that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might fall upon some of them. Of course this healing power in Peter’s shadow was miraculous.
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