The Great Stone Face & Other Tales of the White Hills
The Great Stone Face & Other Tales of the White Hills
Hawthorne Nathaniel
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He showed the golden links of the great chain that intertwined them with an angelic kindred; he brought out the hidden traits of a celes- tial birth that made them worthy of such kin. ^ftomp^ indeed, t here were, who thought to show the sonndnesa tit their ludfi^ment by affirming that all the beauty and _dignity of the natural world existed only in the poet^ft f^ncy. Jjftt such mftn speak for themselves^ who iin-^ ^ doubtedly appear to have been spawned forth by Na- ture with a contemptuous bit...terness; she having plas- tered them up out of her refuse stuff, after all the swine were made. As respects all t ^^'ng^ ^^^^j ^^^""^ p oet's ideal was the truest truth. _ The songs of this poet found their way to Ernest. He read them after his customary toil, seated on the bench before his cottage-door, where for such a length of time he had filled his repose with thought, by gaz- ing at the Great Stone Face. And now as he read stanzas that caused the soul to thrill within him, he lifted his eyes to the vast countenance beaming on him so benignantly.
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