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Goodly sight; but, to the north is\r\nCharlemagne—can’t have the Hearth Stone Hills with Charlemagne.\r\n\r\nWell, the south side. Apple-trees are there. Pleasant, of a balmy\r\nmorning, in the month of May, to sit and see that orchard,\r\nwhite-budded, as for a bridal; and, in October, one green arsenal yard;\r\nsuch piles of ruddy shot. Very fine, I grant; but, to the north is\r\nCharlemagne.\r\n\r\nThe west side, look. An upland pasture, alleying away into a maple wood\r\nat top. Sweet, in opening spring, to trace upon the hill-side,\r\notherwise gray and bare—to trace, I say, the oldest paths by their\r\nstreaks of earliest green. Sweet, indeed, I can’t deny; but, to the\r\nnorth is Charlemagne.\r\n\r\nSo Charlemagne, he carried it. It was not long after 1848; and,\r\nsomehow, about that time, all round the world, these kings, they had\r\nthe casting vote, and voted for themselves.\r\n\r\nNo sooner was ground broken, than all the neighborhood, neighbor Dives,\r\nin particular, broke, too—into a laugh. Piazza to the north! Winter\r\npiazza! Wants, of winter midnights, to watch the Aurora Borealis, I\r\nsuppose; hope he’s laid in good store of Polar muffs and mittens.\r\n\r\nThat was in the lion month of March. Not forgotten are the blue noses\r\nof the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit,\r\nwho would build his sole piazza to the north. But March don’t last\r\nforever; patience, and August comes. And then, in the cool elysium of\r\nmy northern bower, I, Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom, cast down the hill a\r\npitying glance on poor old Dives, tormented in the purgatory of his\r\npiazza to the south.\r\n\r\nBut, even in December, this northern piazza does not repel—nipping cold\r\nand gusty though it be, and the north wind, like any miller, bolting by\r\nthe snow, in finest flour—for then, once more, with frosted beard, I\r\npace the sleety deck, weathering Cape Horn.\r\n\r\nIn summer, too, Canute-like, sitting here, one is often reminded of the\r\nsea. For not only do long ground-swells roll the slanting grain, and\r\nlittle wavelets of the grass ripple over upon the low piazza, as their\r\nbeach, and the blown down of dandelions is wafted like the spray, and\r\nthe purple of the mountains is just the purple of the billows, and a\r\nstill August noon broods upon the deep meadows, as a calm upon the\r\nLine; but the vastness and the lonesomeness are so oceanic, and the\r\nsilence and the sameness, too, that the first peep of a strange house,\r\nrising beyond the trees, is for all the world like spying, on the\r\nBarbary coast, an unknown sail.\r\n\r\nAnd this recalls my inland voyage to fairy-land. 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