June 16, 2020
Before 4 A.M., or sunrise, the sound of chip-birds and robins and bluebirds, etc., fills the air and is incessant.
At sunrise a slight mist curls along the surface of the water. When the sun falls on it, it looks like a red dust.
From top of the hill, the sun, just above the horizon, red and shorn of beams, is somewhat pear-shaped; and then it becomes a broad ellipse, the lower half a dun red. It appears as if it rose in the northeast, - over Ball's Hill at any rate.
From top of the hill, the sun, just above the horizon, red and shorn of beams, is somewhat pear-shaped; and then it becomes a broad ellipse, the lower half a dun red. It appears as if it rose in the northeast, - over Ball's Hill at any rate.
The distant river is like molten silver at this hour; it merely reflects the light, not the blue.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 16, 1853
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