As for me, I give nothing to any one, except I give the like carefully to you;

I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you.

hazard!

Whoever you are! claim your own at any
These shows of the east and west are tame compared to

you;

These immense meadows—these interminable rivers—

you are immense and interminable as they ;

These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution—you are he or she who is master or mistress over them,

Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution.

The hopples fall from your ankles you find an unfailing sufficiency;

Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by the rest, whatever you are promulges itself;

Through birth, life, death, burial, the means are provided, nothing is scanted;

Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.

H

BEGINNERS.

OW they are provided for upon the earth, appearing at intervals;

How dear and dreadful they are to the earth;

How they inure to themselves as much as to any—

a paradox appears their age;

-What

How people respond to them, yet know them not;
How there is something relentless in their fate, all times;
How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and

reward,

And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.

TO A PUPIL.

I.

S reform needed? Is it through you?

IS

The greater the reform needed, the greater the Per-
SONALITY you need to accomplish it.

You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?

Do you not see how it would serve to have such a Body and Soul that, when you enter the crowd, an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impressed with your personality?

2.

O the magnet! the flesh over and over!

Go, dear friend! if need be, give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness;

Rest not, till you rivet and publish yourself of your own personality.

LINKS.

HINK of the Soul;

TH

I.

I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions

to your

soul somehow to live in other spheres ;

I do not know how, but I know it is so.

2.

Think of loving and being loved;

I swear to you, whoever you are, you can interfuse yourself with such things that everybody that sees you shall look longingly upon you.

3.

Think of the past;

I warn you that, in a little while, others will find their past in you and your times.

The race is never separated—nor man nor woman

escapes;

All is inextricable—things, spirits, nature, nations, you

too—from precedents you come.

Recall the ever-welcome defiers, (the mothers precede

them ;)

Recall the sages, poets, saviours, inventors, lawgivers, of

the earth;

Recall Christ, brother of rejected persons—brother of slaves, felons, idiots, and of insane and diseased persons.

4.

Think of the time when you was not yet born;
Think of times you stood at the side of the dying;
Think of the time when your own body will be dying.

Think of spiritual results:

Sure as the earth swims through the heavens, does every one of its objects pass into spiritual results.

Think of manhood, and you to be a man;

Do you count manhood, and the sweet of manhood, nothing?

Think of womanhood, and you to be a woman;
The creation is womanhood;

Have I not said that womanhood involves all?

Have I not told how the universe has nothing better than the best womanhood?

THE WATERS.

HE world below the brine.

ΤΗ

Forests at the bottom of the sea—the branches and leaves,

Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds—the

thick tangle, the openings, and the pink turf,

Different colours, pale grey and green, purple, white, and gold—the play of light through the water,

Dumb swimmers there among the rocks—coral, gluten,

grass, rushes—and the aliment of the swimmers,