the Thoreau Log.
29 April 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Observed a fire yesterday on the railroad,—Emerson’s Island that was. The leaves are dry enough to burn; and I see a smoke this afternoon in the west horizon. There is a slight haziness on the woods, as I go to Mayflower Road at 2.30 P.M., which advances me further into summer . . .

  As I come home over the Corner road, the sun, now getting low, is reflected very bright and silvery from the water on the meadows, seen through the pines of Hubbard’s Grove . . .

(Journal, 3:479-481)

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