Constable John Stevens

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    The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Exit the mental moonlight, exit lex,
    Rex and principium, exit the whole
    Shebang. Exeunt omnes. Here was prose
    More exquisite than any tumbling verse:
    A still new continent in which to dwell.
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)