The water in dreamy motion kept,may have appealed strongly to Cranch at this time; for we find that in October, 1841, he was
As he sat in a dreamy mood,
A wave hove up, and a damsel stept
All dripping from the flood,
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of it. One was of a man with an enormous eye under which he wrote: “I became one great transparent eye-ball” ; and another was a pumpkin with a human face, beneath which was written: “We expand and grow in the sunshine.”
In another sketch Emerson and Margaret Fuller were represented driving “over hill and dale” in a rockaway.1
He would make these humorous sketches to entertain his friends at any time, seizing on a half-sheet of paper, or whatever might be at hand; but he did not long continue to caricature Emerson.
His first volume of poetry, published in 1844, was dedicated to Emerson, and in Dwight's “Translations from Goethe and Schiller,” there are a number of short pieces by Cranch, almost perfect in their rendering from German to English.
Among these the celebrated ballad of “The Fisher” is translated so beautifully as to be slightly, if at all, inferior to the original.
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