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| Walden; June, 2012 |
The earliest water surfaces, as I remember, as
soon as the ice is melted, present as fair and matured scenes, as soft and
warm, reflecting the sky through the clear atmosphere, as in midsummer, -- far in
advance of the earth.
The earliest promise of the summer, - is it not in the
smooth reflecting surface of woodland lakes in which the ice is just melted?
Those liquid eyes of nature, blue or black or even hazel, deep or shallow,
clear or turbid; green next the shore, the color of their iris.
Green next the shore . . .See September 1, 1852 ("Viewed from the hilltop, [Walden] reflects the color of the sky. Beyond the deep reflecting surface, near the shore, it is a vivid green."); August 27, 1852("Viewed from a hilltop, it is blue in the depths and green in the shallows, but from a boat it is seen to be a uniform dark green.”) and Walden ("Walden is blue at one time and green at another, even from the same point of view. Lying between the earth and the heavens, it partakes of the color of both. Viewed from a hill top it reflects the color of the sky, but near at hand it is of a yellowish tint next the shore where you can see the sand, then a; light green, which gradually deepens to a uniform dark green in the body of the pond. In some lights, viewed even from a hilltop, it is of a vivid green next the shore.”)
Those liquid eyes of nature, blue or black or even hazel. See May 27, 1859 ("The dark river, now that shades are increased, is like the dark eye of a maiden.”); May 29, 1857 ("Looking into the light and dark eye of the lake"); See also note to June 6, 1855 ("The dark eye and shade of June”)
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