“Resistance to Government,” the Tract that Wrested India from Britain and Led Martin Luther King, Jr., to the Lincoln Memorial
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Maine
A natural Sabbath brings a depth like Maine
Just off its seashore with its rocks beneath
Lake Champlain
Or like the deepest blue of Lake Champlain.
Intensity of calmness to bequeath,
A Sabbath made of granite offers more
Than rituals and hymns. A Sabbath made
Of fathoms of philosophy and lore
Of Henry David pondering in the shade
Walden Pond
Of war will chant in silence if we let
It. Acers turn to red of soldiers killed
In southern states if men forget the threat
Of lack of granite thought. This blood is spilled
When thoughtful Sabbaths are not turned to calm
Stone thought. Thoreau propounds his peaceful psalm.
~ Phillip Whidden