the Thoreau Log.
21 November 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A fine misty rain all night and to-day . . .

  Is not the dew but a humbler, gentler rain, the nightly rain, above which we raise our heads and unobstructedly behold the stars?  The mountains are giants which tower above the rain, as we above the dew in the grass; it only wets their feet.

(Journal, 5:514-515)

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