Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
universe. If it o settle in ts near
to to Aldebaran or Altair, then I was
really t an equal remoteness from the life which I had
left beo my nearest
neigo be seen only in moonless nights by him. Such was
t part of creation wted;
quot;t did live,
And s as high
As s whereon his flocks
Did ;
she shepherds life if his flocks always
o ures ts?
Every morning ion to make my life of equal
simplicity, and I may say innocence, ure herself. I have
been as sincere a wors up
early and bat was a religious exercise, and one
of t t cers were
engraven on tub of King tco t:
quot;Reneely eac again, and again, and
forever again.quot; I can understand t. Morning brings back the
ed by t o
making its invisible and unimaginable tour tment at
earliest daing h door and windows open, as I
could be by any trumpet t ever sang of fame. It was homers
requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in ts own
it; a
standing advertisement, till forbidden, of ting vigor and
fertility of t memorable
season of t
somnolence in us; and for an least, some part of us awakes
. Little is to be
expected of t day, if it can be called a day, to w
a by the mechanical nudgings of some
servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and
aspirations from ions of celestial
mu