Letter 353 (about October 1870) T. W. Higginson lyrics

        The Riddle that we guess
        We speedily despise -
        Not anything is stale so long
        As Yesterday's Surprise.

The Risks of Immortality are perhaps its' charm - A secure Delight suffers in enchantment -

The larger Haunted House it seems, of maturer Childhood - distant, an alarm - entered intimate at last as a neighbor's Cottage -

        The Spirit said unto the Dust
        Old Friend, thou knewest me
        And Time went out to tell the news
        Unto Eternity -

Those of that renown personally precious, harrow like a Sunset, proved but not obtained -

Tennyson knew this, "Ah Christ - if it be possible" and even in Our Lord's ["] that they be with me where I am," I taste interrogation.

        Experiment escorts us last -
        His pungent company
        Will not allow an Axiom
        An Opportunity -

    You speak of "tameless tastes" - A Beggar came last week - I gave him Food and Fire and as he went, "Where do you go,"

"In all the directions" -
That was what you meant

        Too happy Time dissolves itself
        And leaves no remnant by -
        'Tis Anguish not a Feather hath
        Or too much weight to fly -

I was much refreshed by your strong Letter -

Thank you for Greatness - I will have deserved it in a longer time!

I thought I spoke to you of the shadow -

It affects me -

This was still another -

I saw it's notice in the Papers just before you came - Is there a magazine called the "Woman's Journal"? I think it was said to be in that - a Gate, or Door, or Latch -

Someone called me suddenly, and I never found it -

You told me Mrs Lowell was Mr Lowell's "inspiration" What is inspiration?

You place the truth in opposite - because the fear is mine, dear friend, and the power your's -

        'Tis Glory's *far sufficiency*     [overtakelessness]
        that make's our *trying* poor -     [running]

With the Kingdom of Heaven on his knee, could Mr Emerson hesitate?

"Suffer little Children" -

Could you not come without the Lecture, if the project failed?