Can rules or tutors educate  
  The semigod whom we await?  
  He must be musical,  
  Tremulous, impressional,  
  Alive to gentle influence  
  Of landscape and of sky  
  And tender to the spirit-touch  
  Of man's or maiden's eye.
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1866)























