140 YEARS OF DISCIPLINE. [1843,
" Love drinks at thy banquet Remediless thirst,"
we now have the perfect phrase,
"Love drinks at thy fountain False waters of thirst"
"The Comic" is also Emerson s. There is a poem, " The Sail," by William Tappan, so often named in these letters, and a sonnet by Charles A. Dana, now of the " New York Sun."
TO HELEN THOREAU (AT CONCORD).
STATEN ISLAND, October 18, 1843.
DEAR HELEN, What do you mean by say ing that " we have written eight times by private opportunity"? Isn t it the more the better? And am I not glad of it ? But people have a habit of not letting me know it when they go to Concord from New York. I endeavored to get you "The Present" when I was last in the city, but they were all sold ; and now another is out, which I will send, if I get it. I did not send the " Democratic Review," because I had no copy, and my piece was not worth fifty cents. You think that Channing s words would apply to me too, as living more in the natural than the moral world ; but I think that you mean the world of men and women rather, and reformers generally. My objection to Channing and all that f rater-
