George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.
FriendshipAmos Bronson Alcott (17991888)
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In public place, in converse sweet,
In holy aisles, at market gate,
In learning’s halls, or courts of state,
Nor persons properly shall find,
Save in the commonwealth of Mind;
Fair forms herein their souls intrude,
Peopling what else were solitude.