the Thoreau Log.
20 July 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  To Assabet behind Lee Place.

  Perceived a small weed, coming up all over the fields, which leas an aromatic scent. Did not at first discover that it was blue-curls. It is a little affecting that the year should be thus solemn and regular, that this weed should have withheld itself so long, biding its appointed time, and now, without fail, be coming up all over the land, still extracting that well-known aroma out of the elements, to adorn its part of the year! . . .

(Journal, 4:240-243)

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