"Sunshine was he
In the winter day;
And in the midsummer
Coolness and shade."
Emerson Lecturing in Concord
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Ralph Waldo Emerson addresses a large audience in a Concord, Massachusetts, chapel during a meeting of the Summer School of Philosophy. The School, set up by Bronson Alcott with Emerson, Thoreau, and other members of the Transcendentalist movement, each summer for eleven years.
