Touch Red

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    For, whom the Muses smile upon,
    And touch with soft persuasion,
    His words like a storm-wind can bring
    Terror and beauty on their wing;
    In his every syllable
    Lurketh nature veritable.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    What journeyings on foot and on horseback through the wilderness, to preach the gospel to these minks and muskrats! who first, no doubt, listened with their red ears out of a natural hospitality and courtesy, and afterward from curiosity or even interest, till at length there “were praying Indians,” and, as the General Court wrote to Cromwell, the “work is brought to this perfection that some of the Indians themselves can pray and prophesy in a comfortable manner.”
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)