George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.
The Seer's RationsAmos Bronson Alcott (17991888)
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Earth’s juices, meads’ creams,
Bathes in floods of sweet ethers,
Comes baptized from the streams;
Guest of Him, the sweet-lipp’d,
The Dreamer’s quaint dreams.
With Samian fable,
Sage seasoned from cruets,
Of Plutarch’s chaste table.
Tastes Cana’s glad cheer,
Sun’s, globes, on his trencher,
The elements there.
Brimful of the East,
Foaming flagons of frolic
His evening’s gay feast.
Solar seeds of the sphere,
Olympian viand
Surprising as rare.
His wonderful word
Brings poets and sibyls
To sup at his board.
Speeds thus and thus cares he,
Thus faces and graces
Life’s long euthanasies,
Transfigured, translated—
The idealist prudent,
Saint, poet, priest, student,
Philosopher, he.