Saturday, June 19, 2021

There was nothing but she.





June 19.

The other day I rowed in my boat a free, even lovely young lady, and, as I plied the oars, she sat in the stern, and there was nothing but she between me and the sky.

Ellen Sewall



H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 19, 1840


" I have always loved her." ~ HDT to his sister Sophia, as quoted  in 1962 by Ellen Sewell''s daughter,, Louise Osgood Koopman  in . "The Thoreau Romance"

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