tracts by tters only causes a

        pond to break up earlier; for ter, agitated by the wind, even

        in cold    suc

        t on alden t year, for s a thiew

        garment to take this pond never breaks up so

        soon as t bots

        greater depts ream passing t to melt or

        to open in the course of a

        er, not excepting t of 52-3, whe ponds so severe

        a trial.    It only opens about t of April, a en

        days later ts Pond and Fair o melt on

        ts o freeze.

        It indicates better ter s te progress

        of t affected by tra ges of

        temperature.    A severe cold of a feion in March may very

        mucard temperature

        of alden increases almost uninterruptedly.    A ter t

        into tood at 32x,

        or freezing point;    33x; in ts

        Pond, t 32+x; at a dozen rods from the shore, in

        ser, under ice a foot t 36x.    this difference of

        temperature of ter

        and tter pond, and t t a great

        proportion of it is paratively s should break

        up so muc part was

        at time several inche middle.    In

        mider t and t

        t the

        pond in summer must er is

        close to than a

        little dista, and on t is deep, than near

        ttom.    In spring t os an influehrough

        temperature of t its    passes

        t or more ted from ttom

        in ser, and so also er as the under

        side of t time t it is melting it more

        directly above, making it uneven, and causing the air bubbles which

        it tains to extend til it is

        pletely    last disappears suddenly in a single

        spring rain.    Ice s grain as well as wood, and when a cake

        begins to rot or "b," t is, assume the appearance of

        ever may be its position, t right

        angles    er surface.    here is a rock or a

        log risio t is muer, and

        is frequently quite dissolved by ted ; and I have

        been told t in t at Cambridge to freeze er in a

        sed underh, and

        so o botion of the

        bottom more terbalaage.    hen a warm rain

        in ter melts off the snow-ice from alden, and

        leaves a ransparent i there will be a

        strip of rotten te ice, a rod or more

        ted by ted .    Also, as I have said,

        te as burning-glasses to

        melt th.

        take place every day in a pond on a

        small scale.    Every m, generally speaking, ter

        is being    may not be

        made so er all, and every evening it is being cooled more

        rapidly until tome of the

        he spring and

        fall, and the

        idicate a cemperature.    One pleasant m after a

        cold nigo Flints Pond to

        spend ticed    he ice

        resounded like a gong for many rods

        around, or as if I ru a tighe pond began

        to boom about an er suhe influence of

        ted upon it from over t stretched

        itself and yah a gradually increasing

        tumult,    took a s

        siesta at noon, and boomed once more toward nighe sun was

        stage of ther a pond

        fires its evening gun    regularity.    But in the middle of

        tic,

        it ely lost its resonance, and probably fishes and

        muskrats could not tunned by a blo.    the

        fis t;t; scares the fishes

        and prevents ting.    t thunder every evening,

        and I ot tell surely    its t though I

        may perceive no differen t does.    ho would have

        suspected se and cold and to be so

        sensitive?    Yet it s lao hunders obedience when

        it sh is

        all alive and covered    pond is as

        sensitive to atmosps

        tube.

        Ora in ing to to live    I should

        unity to see the i

        t lengto be    my heel

        in it as I walk.    Fogs and rains and warmer suns are gradually

        melting the days have grown sensibly longer; and I see how

        I s ter    adding to my wood-pile, for

        large fires are no longer necessary.    I am on t for the

        first signs of spring, to e of some arriving

        bird, or triped squirrels cores must be now

        nearly exed, or see ture out of er

        quarters.    On ter I he bluebird,

        song sparroill nearly a foot thick.

        As t    sensibly he

        er, nor broken up and floated off as in rivers, but, t

        ely melted for    the

        middle ed er, so t you

        could put your foot t he

        day evening, perer a

        would ed

        a across t

        disappeared entirely.    In 1845 alden    pletely open on

        t of April; in 46, th of

        April; in 51, th of April; in 53,

        t th of April.

        Every i ected he rivers and

        ponds and ttling of ticularly iing to

        us    extremes.    he warmer days

        e, t nigh

        a startling s icy fetters were

        rent from end to end, and    rapidly going

        out.    So tor es out of the

        earture, and

        seems as to all ions as if she

        upon tocks wo

        lay o h, and    hardly acquire

        more of natural lore if o thuselah --

        told me -- and I o    any of

        Natures operations, for I t t ts

        bet one spring day ook , and

        t t tle sport here was

        ice still on t it    of the river, and

        obstru from Sudbury, wo

        Fair edly, covered for t

        part    was a warm day, and he was

        surprised to see so great a body of ice remaining.    Not seeing any

        ducks,    on the

        pond, and to

        a ted for the

        s of er, h a muddy

        bottom, suc it likely

        t some ty soon.    After ill there

        about an ant sound, but

        singularly grand and impressive, unlike anything he had ever heard,

        gradually s would have a universal

        and memorable ending, a sullen ruso him

        all at once like t body of foo

        settle tarted up in e and

        excited; but o    the

        ice arted o the shore, and

        ts edge grating on the shore --

        at first gently nibbled and crumbled off, but at length heaving up

        and scattering its o a siderable

        before it came to a standstill.

        At lengttai angle, and warm

        and rain ahe sun,

        dispersing t, smiles on a d

        raveller picks his

        to islet, kling

        rills and rivulets wer

        whey are bearing off.

        Feo observe the forms

        whe sides of a

        deep cut on to the

        village, a p very on on se a scale, though

        t material must have

        beely multiplied since railroads ed.    terial

        was sand of every degree of fineness and of various rich colors,

        only mixed tle clay.     es out in the

        spring, and even in a ter, to

        floimes bursting out the

        sno wo be seen before.

        Innumerable little streams overlap and interlae her,

        exing a sort of , whe law of

        currents, and    of vegetation.    As it flo takes the

        forms of sappy leaves or vines, making

        or more ihe

        laiated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lis; or you

        are reminded of coral, of leopards pa, of brains

        or lungs or bos of all kinds.    It is a truly

        grotesque vegetation, ed in

        bronze, a sort of arcectural foliage more a and typical

        table leaves;

        destined perao bee a puzzle to

        future geologists.    t impressed me as if it were a cave

        s stalactites laid open to t.    the various shades of

        t

        iron colors, brown, gray, yellowishe flowing

        mass reac t of t spreads out

        flatter into strands, te streams losing their

        semi-drical form and gradually being more flat and broad,

        running toget, till t

        flat sand, still variously aifully s in which you

        trace tation; till at lengthe

        er itself, ted into banks, like those formed off

        tation are lost in the

        ripple marks on ttom.

        ty to forty feet high, is

        sometimes overlaid his kind of foliage, or sandy

        rupture, for a quarter of a mile on one or bothe produce

        of one spring day.     makes ts

        springing iehe one side

        t bank -- for ts on one side first -- and on the

        ot foliage, tion of an ed

        as if in a peculiar sense I stood in tory of tist

        work,

        sp on trewing his fresh

        designs about.    I feel as if I o tals of the

        globe, for thing such a foliaass

        as tals of the very sands

        an anticipation of table leaf.    No    th

        expresses itself out so labors he idea

        inoms

        by it.    ts prototype.    Internally,

        thick lobe, a

        o the leaves of

        fat (jnai, labor, lapsus, to flow or slip downward, a lapsing;

        jiais, globus, lobe, globe; also lap, flap, and many other words);

        externally a dry the f and v are a pressed and

        dried b.    t mass of the b

        (single lobed, or B, double lobed),

        pressing it f adds to the

        meaning ty of t.    thers and wings of birds

        are still drier and the

        lumpiso ttering butterfly.    the

        very globe tinually transds and translates itself, and bees

        s orbit.    Even ice begins e crystal leaves,

        as if it o moulds s have

        impressed on tery mirror.    tree itself is but one

        leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves wervening

        eartoies are ts in their axils.

        o flo in the

        m treams art once more and brand branch again

        into a myriad of others.    You here see perce how blood-vessels

        are formed.    If you look closely you observe t first there pushes

        forream of softened sand h a

        drop-like point, like ts way slowly

        and blindly doil at last    and moisture, as

        ts    fluid portion, in its effort to obey

        to    also yields, separates from the

        latter and forms for itself a meandering cery hin

        t, in ream glang like

        ligage of pulpy leaves or branother, and

        ever and anon s is wonderful hoidly

        yet perfectly tself as it flo

        material its mass affords to form ts el.

        Sucter whe

        er deposits is perem, and in till finer

        soil and anic matter tissue.

        is man but a mass of the human finger is

        but a drop gealed.    toes floo tent

        from t the human body

        to under a menial    the

        s lobes and veins?    the ear may be

        regarded, fancifully, as a liche

        s lobe or drop.    the lip -- labium, from labor (?) --

        laps or lapses from the nose is a

        ma gealed drop or stalactite.    till larger

        drop, t dripping of the cheeks are a slide

        from to the face, opposed and diffused by

        table leaf, too, is a

        tering drop, larger or smaller; the

        fingers of t has, in so many

        dires it tends to flenial

        influences o flo farther.

        t seemed t trated the principle

        of all tions of Nature.    t

        patented a leaf.     Chis hieroglyphic

        for us, t urn over a ne last?    this phenomenon

        is more exing to me tility of

        vineyards.    true, it is someitious in its cer,

        and to ts, and bowels, as if

        turs at least

        t Nature y.

        t ing out of t

        precedes thology precedes regular

        poetry.    I knoive of er fumes and

        iions.    It vinces me t Eartill in her

        sretch baby fingers on every side.

        Fres brohing

        inanic.    the slag

        of a furnace, s Nature is "in full blast" he

        eart a mere fragment of dead ory, stratum upon stratum

        like to be studied by geologists and

        antiquaries c living poetry like tree,

        a fossil eart a living

        eart tral life all animal and

        vegetable life is merely parasitic.    Its throes will heave our

        exuviae from t your metals and cast them

        into t beautiful moulds you ; te me

        like te into.    And not only

        it, but titutions upon it are plastic like clay in the hands

        of tter.

        Ere long, not only on t on every hill and plain

        and in every    es out of the ground like a

        dormant quadruped from its burroh music, or

        migrates to otle persuasion

        is more pos, the

        ot breaks in pieces.

        ially bare of snow, and a few warm days

        s surfae    to pare t

        tender signs of t year just peeping fortately

        beauty of tation he

        er -- life-everlasting, goldenrods, pinweeds, and graceful wild

        grasses, more obvious and iing frequently than in summer

        even, as if ty    ripe till tton-grass,

        cat-tails, mulleins, jo, , and other

        strong-stemmed plants, ted granaries ain

        t birds -- det    least, wure

        icularly attracted by the arg and sheaf-like

        top of t brings back to our er

        memories, and is among t loves to copy, and which,

        in table kingdom, ion to types already in

        t astronomy    is an antique style, older

        tian.    Many of ter are

        suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy.    e

        are aced to erous

        tyrant; but leness of a lover resses of

        Summer.

        At t under my house,

        t a time, directly under my feet as I sat reading ,

        a up t chug and chirruping and vocal

        pirouetting and gurgling sounds t ever were heard; and when I

        stamped t all fear and

        respe ty to stop them.    No, you

        dont -- y

        arguments, or failed to perceive to a strain

        of iive t ible.

        t sparroh younger

        silvery warblings he

        partially bare and moist fields from the song sparrow,

        and t flakes of er tinkled as they

        fell!     at sucime are ories, craditions,

        and all ten revelations?    to

        the meadow, is already

        seeking t slimy life t ahe sinking sound of

        melting snow is he ice dissolves apa

        the hillsides like a spring fire

        -- "et primitus oritur a" -- as if

        t fort to greet turning sun; not

        yello green is ts flame; -- the symbol of

        perpetual youtreams

        from to t, but anon

        pusing its spear of last years he

        fres groeadily as t of the

        ground.    It is almost identical , for in the growing days

        of June, wheir

        co year t this perennial

        green stream, and t betimes ter

        supply.    So our    dies doo its root, and still puts

        freen blade to eternity.

        alden is melting apace.    two rods wide along

        terly sides, and ill at t end.

        A great field of ice he main body.    I hear a

        song sparro, olit,

        olit -- coo

        is o crack it.     sweeping curves in

        t to t

        mular!    It is unusually o t severe but

        tra cold, and all ered or

        ts opaque surfa vain, till it

        reac is glorious to behis

        ribbon of er sparkling in the pond full

        of glee and yout spoke t,

        and of ts she scales

        of a leuciscus, as it ive fishe

        trast beter and spring.    alden was dead and is alive

        again.    But t broke up more steadily, as I have said.

        torm ao serene and mild her,

        from dark and sluggisies, is a

        memorable crisis w is seemingly

        instantaneous at last.    Suddenly an influx of light filled my house,

        t er still

        over, and ty rain.    I looked

        out terday here lay

        transparent pond already calm and full of hope as in a summer

        evening, refleg a summer evening sky in its bosom, though none

        e

        a I had heard for

        many a t,    for

        many a t and powerful song as of yore.

        O t the end of a New England summer day!    If I

        could ever find twig s upon!    I mean wig.

        t least is not turdus migratorius.    tch pines and

        s my house, which had so long drooped, suddenly

        resumed ters, looked brighter, greener, and more

        ered alive, as if effectually sed aored by the

        rain.    I k    rain any more.    You may tell by

        looking at any t, ay, at your very wood-pile,

        er is past or not.    As it grew darker, I was

        startled by the woods, like

        ravellers getting in late from Southern lakes, and indulging

        at last in urained plaint and mutual solation.    Standing

        at my door, I could bear their wings; when, driving

        toh hushed

        clamor    the

        door, and passed my first spring nighe woods.

        In tche

        mist, sailing in ty rods off, se

        and tumultuous t alden appeared like an artificial pond for

        t.    But    once rose up

        flapping of    their ander, and

        o rank circled about over my y-nine

        of teered straigo ada, h a regular honk

        from t intervals, trusting to break t in

        muddier pools.    A "plump" of ducks rose at time and took

        te to their noisier cousins.

        For a week I he cirg, groping gor of some

        solitary goose in ts panion, and

        still peopling they

        could sustain.    In April the pigeons were seen again flying express

        in small flocks, and iime I ins ttering over

        my clearing, t    seemed t townsained so

        many t it could afford me any, and I fa they were

        peculiarly of t race t d in rees ere we

        men came.    In almost all climes tortoise and the frog are among

        th song

        and glang plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow,

        to correct t oscillation of the

        equilibrium of nature.

        As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the ing in

        of spring is like tion of os out of Che

        realization of the Golden Age.--

        "Eurus ad Auroram Nabat,

        Persidaque, et radiis juga subdita matutinis."

        "t-ind o Aurora and thean kingdom,

        And the m rays.

        . . . . . . .

        Man ificer of things,

        tter world, made he divine seed;

        Or t and lately sundered from the high

        Etained some seeds of ate ;

        A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.    So

        our prospects brigter ts.    e should

        be blessed if    alook advantage of

        every act t befell us, like the

        influence of test de falls on it; and did not spend

        our time in atoning for t of past opportunities, which we

        call doing our duty.    e loiter in er w is already

        spring.    In a pleasant spring m all mens sins are fiven.

        Sucruce to vice.     to burn,

        t sinner may return.    through our own recovered innoce

        he innoce of our neighbors.    You may have known your

        neigerday for a t, and

        merely pitied or despised    the

        sun s and    spring m, recreating the

        some serene work, and see    is

        exed and debaucill joy and bless the

        nehe innoce of infancy,

        and all s are fotten.    t only an atmosphere

        of good     even a savor of holiness groping for

        expression, blindly and iually perhaps, like a new-born

        instinct, and for a s o no

        vulgar jest.    You see some i fair ss preparing to burst

        from ry anotender and fresh

        as t plant.    Even ered into the joy of his

        Lord.     leave open his prison doors -- why

        t dismis

        dismiss ion!    It is because t obey t

        he pardon which he freely offers

        to all.

        "A return to goodness produced eaquil and

        benefit breat in respect to the love

        of virtue and tred of vice, one approactle the

        primitive nature of man, as ts of t which has been

        felled.    In like maerval of a

        day prevents tues w up again

        from developing troys them.

        "After tue ed many times

        from developing t breath of evening

        does not suffice to preserve th of evening

        does not suffice loo preserve ture of man

        does not differ muc of te.    Men seeing ture

        of t of te, t he has never

        possessed te faculty of reason.    Are true and

        natural ses of man?"

        "t created, w any avenger

        Spontaneously    laitude.

        Punis and fear ; nor ening words read

        On suspended brass; nor did t crowd fear

        t    an avenger.

        Not yet ts mountains had desded

        to t it might see a fn world,

        And mortals kneheir own.

        . . . . . . .

        ternal spring, and placid zeph warm

        Blasts soot seed."

        On the

        river anding on the quaking

        grass and s, ws lurk, I heard a singular

        rattling sound, some of ticks which boys play

        and

        graceful ernately s like a ripple

        and tumbling a rod or two over and over, she under side of

        its he

        pearly inside of a s reminded me of falry and

        ry are associated    sport.    the

        Merlin it seemed to me it mig I care not for its

        name.    It    et I nessed.    It did

        not simply flutter like a butterfly, nor soar like the larger hawks,

        but it sported ing

        again and again s strange c repeated its free and

        beautiful fall, turning over and over like a kite, and then

        rec from its lofty tumbling, as if it    its foot

        on terra firma.    It appeared to he universe --

        sp to need    the

        et played.    It    lonely, but made all the

        eart.     s

        kindred, and its fatenant of t

        seemed related to t by an egg cime in the

        crevice of a crag; -- or s native    made in the angle of a

        cloud, rimmings and t sky, and

        lined    midsummer    up from earts eyry

        now some cliffy cloud.

        Beside t a rare mess of golden and silver and bright

        cupreous fisring of jewels.    Ah! I have

        peed to t spring

        day, jumping from o    to willow

        root, whed in so

        pure and brig as would hey had

        been slumbering in there needs no

        stronger proof of immortality.    All t live in such a

        liging?    O Grave, why

        victory, then?

        Our village life agnate if it    for the

        unexplored forests and meadoonic

        of o imes in marstern and

        to smell the

        wary fowl

        builds , and ts belly close to the

        ground.    At time t    to explore and learn

        all t all terious and

        unexplorable, t land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and

        unfathomable.    e ever have enough of

        nature.    e must be refres of inexible vigor,

        vast and titanic features, t s he

        s living and its deg trees, the

        ts three weeks and produces

        fress.    e o ness our ressed, and some

        life pasturing freely where we never wander.    e are cheered when we

        observe ture feeding on ts and

        disens us, and derivi.

        to my house, which

        pelled me sometimes to go out of my

        gave me

        appetite and inviolable ure ion for

        to see t Nature is so rife    myriads

        be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one

        anot tender anizations    be so serenely squas

        of existence like pulp -- tadpoles which herons gobble up, and

        tortoises and toads run over in t sometimes it has

        rained flesy to act,    see

        tle at is to be made of it.    the impression made on a

        of universal innoce.    Poison is not poisonous

        after all, nor are any al.    passion is a very untenable

        ground.    It must be expeditious.    Its pleadings    bear to be

        stereotyped.

        Early in May, trees, just

        putting out amidst ted a

        brigo the landscape, especially in cloudy

        days, as if ts and sly

        on th of May I

        sa h I

        he wood

        pehrush

        long before.    t

        my door and o see if my house was cavern-like enough for

        aining alons, as if

        she

        sulpche

        stones and rotten    you could have

        collected a barrelful.    t;sulp; we bear of.

        Even in Calidas drama of Satala, ;rills dyed yellow

        of tus."    And so t rolling

        on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

        t years life in ted; and the

        sed year o it.    I finally left aldeember 6th,

        1847.
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