Mystics of Concord
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New England thinkers mixed autumnal views
With leaves from Homer, also Dante’s leaves.
That blinded poet managed to suffuse
The thoughts of Emerson. His mind achieves
The broadness of the Transcendental brain
And reaches back to touch the grandeur of
The epic, arced conceptions Homer’s pain
Encompasses. Thoreau refused the shove
Of ordinary things. Like Homer’s lines
With all their manly stretch, their warp and weft,
Thoreau turns inward in the fall, refines
The sodden leaves, and gives our thoughts his heft.
..Both Homer and Hell’s Dante deal with dooms,
….Not wider thoughts of Yankee logic’s rooms.
