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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Hamatreya:

"Hamatreya" is a word coined by Emerson himself. The poem, published in
1847, was loosely adapted from a Hindu work, Vishnu Parana.

The first settlers of Concord, "Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam,
Flint," possessed the land on which they toiled to produce "hay, corn, roots,
hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood." Each owned his own farm, for himself and
his children. Each loved the shadows of his hill; his "actions smack of the
soil."

But now, these men are "asleep beneath their grounds." Strangers plow
their beloved earth.

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