THE CONCORD SEER.

THE Transcendentalist—he now transcends The cloud of death to join exalted friends. The Saadi of the West, the Saint, the Sage, The north-sprung Plato of an un-Greek age, Hath changed his habitation, and his ghost Takes note authentic of the unknown coast. Ah, joy serene! there doth he recognize Congenial souls foreknown “polite and wise”:— Two bards were first to hail his risen wraith, One sang the Psalm of Life, one that of Death; Then mystic Hawthorne took his willing hand, As Vergil Dante’s in the Shadow Land; Now haply doth his converse reconcile Momentous discords with redeemed Carlyle; Perhaps in Soul’s consortable domain He meets the shade of erudite Montaigne; Or German-Grecian Goethe shows the way To Fields Elysian where the Ancients stray;— By some celestial brook of lucent flow, Where plane-trees with immortal verdure grow, May sit, discoursing calm philosophies, The Concord Seer, with argute Socrates.