the Thoreau Log.
18 August 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P. M.—To Beck Stow’s.

  Now, perhaps, get thoroughwort. The lecheas in the Great Fields are now turning red, especially the fine one.

  As I go along the hillsides in sprout-lands, amid the Solidago stricta, looking for the blackberries left after the rain, the sun warm as ever, but the air cool nevertheless, I hear the steady (not intermittent) shrilling of apparently the alder cricket, clear, loud, and autumnal, a season sound. Hear it, but see it not. It reminds me of past autumns and the lapse of time . . .

(Journal, 9:8-9)

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