Shaker Songs

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    Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    And songs climb out of the flames of the near campfires,
    Pale, pastel things exquisite in their frailness
    With a note or two to indicate it isn’t lost,
    On them at least. The songs decorate our notion of the world
    And mark its limits, like a frieze of soap-bubbles.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)