It is something to know when I am addressed by Divinity, a god who follows me down cellar to speak to me.

January 10.


I went down cellar 

just now 

to get an armful of wood

and, passing the brick piers 

with my 

wood and candle, 

I heard,

methought,

a commonplace suggestion,

but when, 

as it were by accident,

I reverently attended to the hint,

 

I found that it was the voice of a god.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January, 1851

It is something to know when you are addressed by Divinity and not by a common traveller. I went down cellar just now to get an armful of wood and, passing the brick piers with my wood and candle, I heard, methought, a commonplace suggestion, but when, as it were by accident, I reverently attended to the hint, I found that it was the voice of a god who had followed me down cellar to speak to me. How many communications may we not lose through inattention!

January 10. 

See A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, January 10

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

"A book, each page written in its own season,

out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

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