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 140 YEARS OF DISCIPLINE. [1843,

&quot; Love drinks at thy banquet Remediless thirst,&quot;

we now have the perfect phrase,

&quot;Love drinks at thy fountain False waters of thirst&quot;

&quot;The Comic&quot; is also Emerson s. There is a poem, &quot; The Sail,&quot; by William Tappan, so often named in these letters, and a sonnet by Charles A. Dana, now of the &quot; New York Sun.&quot;

TO HELEN THOREAU (AT CONCORD).

STATEN ISLAND, October 18, 1843.

DEAR HELEN, What do you mean by say ing that &quot; we have written eight times by private opportunity&quot;? 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 &quot;The Present&quot; 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 &quot; Democratic Review,&quot; 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-