the Thoreau Log.
2 March 1840. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Love is the burden of all Nature’s odes. The song of the birds is an epithalamium, a hymeneal. The marriage of the flowers spots the meadows and fringes the hedges with pearls and diamonds. In the deep water, in the high air, in woods and pastures, and the bowels of the earth, this is the employment and condition of all things.
(Journal, 1:125)

Thoreau also replies to Charles Stearns Wheeler’s letter of 6 January (The Correspondence (2013, Princeton), 1:63-4; MS missing). Wheeler replies 4 March.

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