Solitude
the whole body is one sense,
and imbibes deligh a
strange liberty in Nature, a part of he
stony s-sleeves, t is cool as
o attract me,
all ts are unusually congenial to me. trump
to us, and te of the whip-poor-will is borne
on ter. Sympathe
fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes a,
like ty is rippled but not ruffled. these small
e from storm as the
smooting surface. t is noill
bloill dash, and some
creatures lull t es. the repose is never
complete. t animals do not repose, but seek their prey
no, nohe fields and woods
fear. tures c the
days of animated life.
urn to my visitors here
and left th of
evergreen, or a name in pencil on a yello leaf or a chip.
to take some little piece of the
forest into to play hey leave,
eitentionally or accidentally. One has peeled a willow wand,
into a ring, and dropped it on my table. I could always
tell if visitors he bended
t of t
sex or age or quality t trace left, as a
flower dropped, or a bunchrown away, even as
far off as tant, or by the lingering
odor of a cigar or pipe. Nay, I ly notified of the
passage of a traveller along ty rods off by t
of his pipe.
t space about us. Our horizon is
never quite at our elbo just at our door,
nor t somew is always clearing, familiar and w