Wednesday, July 21, 2010

After the rain

July 21.

A rainy day; half an inch of rain falls, spoiling much hay. Thus is so wet a season that the grass is still growing fast and most things are very fresh.

6 P. M. - Up Assabet.

Now, after the rain, the sun coming forth brightly, the swallows in numbers are skimming low over the river just below the junction.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 21, 1860


A rainy day; half an inch of rain falls, spoiling much hay. Thus is so wet a season.
Compare July 14, 1854 (“Awake to day of gentle rain, — very much needed; none to speak of for nearly a month, methinks”)

After the rain, the sun coming forth brightly, the swallows in numbers are skimming low over the river.  See April 29, 1854 (" The barn swallows are very numerous, flying low over the water in the rain.”)

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