the Thoreau Log.
26 September 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Dreamed of purity last night. The thoughts seemed not to originate with me, but I was invested, my thought was tinged, by another’s thought. It was not I that originated, but I that entertained the thought . . .

  P.M.—To Ministerial Swamp.

  The small cottony leaves of the fragrant everlasting in the fields for some time, protected, as it were, by a little web of cotton against frost and snow,—a little dense web of cotton spun over it,—entangled in it,—as if to restrain it from rising higher . . .

(Journal, 4:363-364)

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