4. THE DOME OF THE TACONICS.

Pillar which God aloft had set,

So that men might it not forget ;

It should be their life’s ornamentAnd mix itself with each event ;

Gauge and calendar and dial,

Weather-glass and chemic phial,

Garden of berries, perch of birds,

Pasture of pool-haunting herds,

Graced by each change of sun untold,Earth-baking heat, stone-cleaving cold.

R. W. Emerson.

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