“Show me the place.”
Duke Senior
in As You Like It (2.1)
82:
We toured the house where Emerson
Had lived and written classic things —
His essays, poems. When he’d done,
He had an oeuvre that still sings.
The house itself contained so much
That he had owned so long ago.
His furniture and books and stuff—
The place seemed timeless (though not so).
Oh, what a town was Concord then!
The Alcotts and, of course, Thoreau.
The blazing talents that long have been
Important for us all to know.
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