The Daily Miracle of Memory

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think  it is memory.  There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures,  the inequalities of…

The Lesson of a Tree by Walt Whitman

for Ale Vazquez Sept. 1.—I should not take either the biggest or the most picturesque tree to illustrate it. Here is one of my favorites now before me, a fine yellow poplar, quite straight, perhaps…