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Title: Through the year with Thoreau
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Gleason, Herbert Wendell, 1855-1937
Subjects: Natural history. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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les as we have! Journal, ii, 454. ( 84 ) SUNSET ON THE RIVER September 6, 1854. There are many clouds aboutand a beautiful sunset sky, a yellowish (dunnish?)golden sky, between them in the horizon, lookingup the river. The beauty of the sunset is doubledby the reflection. Being on the water we have doublethe amount of lit and dun-colored sky above andbeneath. The reflected sky is more dun and richerthan the real one. Take a glorious sunset sky anddouble it, so that it shall extend downward beneaththe horizon as much as above it, blotting out theearth, and let the lowest half be of the deepest tint,and every beauty more than before insisted on, andyou seem withal to be floating directly into it. Itwas in harmony with this fair evening that we werenot walking or riding with dust and noise throughit, but moved by a paddle without a jar over theliquid and almost invisible surface, floating directlytoward those islands of the blessed which we callclouds in the sunset sky. Journal, vii, 19.
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C 85 ) We never tire of the drama of sunset. I goforth each afternoon and look into the west a quarterof an hour before sunset, with fresh curiosity, tosee what new picture will be painted there, whatnew panorama exhibited, what new dissolving views.Can Washington Street or Broadway show anythingas good? Every day a new picture is painted andframed, held up for half an hour, in such lights asthe Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn andthe curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, andlong the afterglow gives light. And then the damaskcurtains glow along the western window. And nowthe first star is lit, and I go home. Journal, iii, 179. ( 86 ) GOLDENROD (SOLIDAGO NEMORALIS) September 12, 1859. To Moores Swamp andGreat Fields. I stand in Moores Swamp and look at Garfieldsdry bank, now before the woods generally arechanged at all. How ruddy ripe that dry hillside bythe swamp, covered with goldenrods and clumps ofhazel bushes here and there, now more or less scarlet.The goldenrods on

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