In this winter I now walk over fields raised a foot or more above their summer level, and the prospect is altogether new.
No difference between rivers, ponds, and fields.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, February 8, 1852
I now walk over fields raised a foot or more above their summer level, and the prospect is altogether new. see January 24, 1856 ("When the snow raises us one foot higher than we have been accustomed to walk, we are surprised at our elevation! So we soar.")
Night before last, our first rain for a long time; this afternoon, the first crust to walk on.
It is pleasant to walk over the fields raised a foot or more above their summer level, and the prospect is altogether new.
Is not all music a hum more or less divine? I hear something new at every telegraph - post.
I have not got out of hearing of one before I hear a new harp.
Thoughts of different dates will not cohere.
Carried a new cloak to Johnny Riordan.
I found that the shanty was warmed by the simple social relations of the Irish.
On Sunday they come from the town and stand in the doorway and so keep out the cold.
One is not cold among his brothers and sisters.
What if there is less fire on the hearth, if there is more in the heart!
These Irish are not succeeding so ill after all.
The little boy goes to the primary school and proves a for ward boy there, and the mother's brother , whohas let himself in the village, tells me that he takes the Flag of our Union ( if that is the paper edited by an Irish man ).
It is musical news to hear that Johnny does not love to be kept at home from school in deep snows.
In this winter often no apparent difference between rivers, ponds and fields.
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