Sill Depth

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    At the punch-bowl’s brink,
    Let the thirsty think,
    What they say in Japan:
    First the man takes a drink,
    Then the drink takes a drink,
    Then the drink takes the man!
    —Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887)

    Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love—now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)