May 21st, Taps.
The Nile would be very pleasant, but we do not own ourselves
and have no right to even wish ourselves out of harness. I do not think I grow
any less appreciative as I grow older, — I hope I never may, for my own sake
and for yours.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 241-2
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