Sometimes, of y and gossip, and
all my village friends, I rambled still fartward
tually do yet more unfrequented parts of the
to;to fresures ne; or, whe sun was
setting, made my supper of huckleberries and blueberries on Fair
ore for several days. ts do not
yield true flavor to to him who
raises t. t one o obtain it, yet
feake t he flavor of huckleberries,
ask tridge. It is a vulgar error to suppose
t you asted hem. A
on; t been knohere
since tial
part of t is lost he
market cart, and ternal
Justice reigns, not one innocent ransported
trys hills.
Occasionally, after my he day, I joined
some impatient companion whe pond since
morning, as silent and motionless as a duck or a floating leaf, and,
after practising various kinds of philosophy, had concluded
commonly, by time I arrived, t o t
sect of Coenobites. t fisher
and skilled in all kinds of , wo look upon
my ed for the convenience of fishermen; and
I o arrange his
lines. Once in a oget one end
of t, and I at t not many ween
us, for er years, but he occasionally
h my philosophy.
Our intercourse ogether one of unbroken harmony, far
more pleasing to remember t had been carried on by speech.
o commune h, I used
to raise triking he side of my
boat, filling ting
sound, stirring the keeper of a menagerie his wild
beasts, until I elicited a growl from every wooded vale and
hillside.
In ly sat in t playing te,
and sao have charmed, hovering around me,
and travelling over ttom, wrewed
. Formerly I o this pond
adventurously, from time to time, in dark summer nigh a
companion, and, making a fire close to ters edge, which we
t attracted t pouts h a bunch of worms
strung on a t, threw
to ts, which, coming
doo th a loud hissing, and we were
suddenly groping in total darkness. tling a tune,
ook our o ts of men again. But now I had made my
he shore.
Sometimes, after staying in a village parlor till the family had
all retired, I urned to tly h a view
to t days dinner, spent t fishing from a
boat by moonlight, serenaded by owls and foxes, and hearing, from
time to time, te of some unkno hand.
to me -- anchored
in forty feet of er, and ty or ty rods from the shore,
surrounded sometimes by thousands of small perch and shiners,
dimpling tails in t, and
communicating by a long flaxen line erious nocturnal fishes
beloimes dragging
sixty feet of line about ted in tle night
breeze, no vibration along it, indicative
of some life pro its extremity, of dull uncertain
blundering purpose to make up its mind. At length
you slowly raise, pulling squeaking
and squirming to t was very queer, especially in
dark nigs o vast and cosmogonal
to feel t jerk, wo
interrupt your dreams and link you to Nature again. It seemed as if
I mig cast my line upo the air, as well as downward
into t, wo
fis h one hook.
though very
beautiful, does not approaco grandeur, nor can it much concern
one ed it or lived by its s this
pond is so remarkable for its depty as to merit a
particular description. It is a clear and deep green well, half a
mile long and a mile and ters in circumference, and
contains about sixty-one and a he
midst of pine and oak any visible inlet or outlet
except by tion. the surrounding hills rise
abruptly from ter to t of forty to eig,
t and east ttain to about one hundred
and one y feet respectively, er and a
they are exclusively woodland. All our Concord
ers least; one ance, and
anot depends more on the
lighey
appear blue at a little distance, especially if agitated, and at a
great distance all appear alike. In stormy hey are
sometimes of a dark slate-color. to be
blue one day and green anot any perceptible che
atmosphe landscape being
covered er and ice as green as grass.
Some consider blue quot;to be ter, wher liquid or
solid.quot; But, looking directly doo our ers from a boat,
to be of very different colors. alden is blue at one
time and green at anot of view. Lying
bet partakes of th.
Vie reflects t near at
is of a yello next the
sand, t green, wo a uniform dark
green in ts, viewed even from a
op, it is of a vivid green next the shore. Some have referred
to tion of t it is equally green there
against the leaves
are expanded, and it may be simply t of the prevailing blue
mixed s iris.
t portion, also, whe ice being
of ted from ttom, and also
transmitted ts first and forms a narrow canal
about till frozen middle. Like t of our ers, when
mucated, in clear the waves
may reflect t t angle, or because there is more
lig, it appears at a little distance of a darker
blue tself; and at sucime, being on its surface,
and looking o see tion, I have
discerned a matc blue, sucered
or c, more cerulean the
sky itself, alternating e
sides of t appeared but muddy in comparison. It
is a vitreous greenis, like tches of
ter sky seen tas in t before sundown.
Yet a single glass of its er o t is as colorless
as an equal quantity of air. It is a large plate of
glass , oo its
quot;body,quot; but a small piece of the same will be colorless. how large
a body of alden er o reflect a green tint I
er of our river is black or a very dark
broo one looking directly do, and, like t of most
ponds, imparts to t a yellowisinge;
but ter is of sucalline purity t the
bater ill more unnatural,
ed hal, produces a
monstrous effect, making fit studies for a Michael Angelo.
ter is so transparent t ttom can easily be
discerned at ty-five or ty feet. Paddling over
it, you may see, many feet beneathe schools of perch
and s the former easily
distinguisransverse bars, and you t t
be ascetic fis find a subsistence ter,
many years ago, wting he ice in
order to catcepped asossed my axe back on
to t, as if some evil genius ed it, it slid
four or five rods directly into one of ter
y-five feet deep. Out of curiosity, I lay dohe ice
and looked til I satle on one
side, standing on its s and gently swaying
to and fro migood
erect and sill in time tted off,
if I disturbed it. Making anotly over it
ting do birch
wh my knife, I made a
slip-noose, s end, and, letting it down
carefully, passed it over t by a
line along t again.
t of smoote stones
like paving-stones, excepting one or two s sand beaches, and is
so steep t in many places a single leap o er
over your not for its remarkable transparency,
t to be seen of its bottom till it rose on the
opposite side. Some t is bottomless. It is nowhere muddy,
and a casual observer t all in
it; and of noticeable plants, except in ttle meadoly
overfloo it, a closer scrutiny
does not detect a flag nor a bulrush, nor even a lily, yellow or
only a feamogetons, and
perer-target or t
perceive; and ts are clean and brig
tones extend a rod or to ter, and
ttom is pure sand, except in t parts, where
ttle sediment, probably from the
leaves o it so many successive falls, and
a brig up on ancer.
e like te Pond, in Nine Acre
Corner, about t, though I am
acquainted of this
centre I do not knoer.
Successive nations perc, admired, and fathomed
it, and passed aill its er is green and pellucid as
ever. Not an intermitting spring! Per spring morning
w of Eden alden Pond was already in
existence, and even tle spring rain
accompanied and a south myriads
of ducks and geese, w ill such
pure lakes sufficed t o rise and
fall, and s ers and colored they
noained a patent of o be the only alden Pond
in tiller of celestial dews. ho knows in how many
unremembered nations literatures talian
Fountain? or is
a gem of t er w.
Yet perc some
trace of tsteps. I o detect
encircling t been cut down
on teep hillside,
alternately rising and falling, approache
ers edge, as old probably as the
feet of aboriginal ers, and still from time to time untingly
trodden by t occupants of ticularly
distinct to one standing on ter, just
after a liging we
line, unobscured by er of a
mile off in many places w is inguishable
close at s it, as it were, in clear we
type alto-relievo. ted grounds of villas which will one
day be built ill preserve some trace of this.
t w, and
period, nobody knoend to
kno is commonly er and lohe summer,
t corresponding to t and dryness. I can
remember or t
least five feet . there is a narrow
sand-bar running into it, er on one side, on which
I tle of che main
s t been possible to do for
ty-five years; and, on to listen
y a feer I was
accustomed to fis in a secluded cove in the woods,
fifteen rods from they knew, which place was long
since converted into a meado teadily for
t five feet higher
t y years ago, and
fishis makes a difference of
level, at tside, of six or seven feet; and yet ter shed
by t in amount, and this
overflo be referred to causes he deep springs.
to fall again. It is remarkable
t tuation, o
require many years for its accomplis. I have observed one rise
and a part of t t a dozen or fifteen years
er will again be as low as I .
Flints Pond, a mile easturbance
occasioned by its inlets and outlets, and termediate
ponds also, sympatly attained their
greatest at time ter. true,
as far as my observation goes, of e Pond.
t long intervals serves this use
at least; ter standing at t for a year or
more, t makes it difficult to , kills the
srees s edge since t
rise -- pitchers -- and,
falling again, leaves an unobstructed shore; for, unlike many ponds
and all ers o a daily tide, its shore is
cleanest . On t my
ceen feet high, has been killed and
tipped over as if by a lever, and top put to their
encroacs; and tes how many years have elapsed
since t rise to t. By tuation the pond
asserts its title to a she
trees cannot by righe lips of
t licks its cime to
time. er is at its , the alders, willows, and
maples send forts several feet long from
all sides of tems in ter, and to t of three or
four feet from t to maintain themselves; and
I the shore, which
commonly produce no fruit, bear an abundant crop under these
circumstances.
Some o tell he shore became so regularly
paved. My toion -- t
people tell me t t in t anciently
the Indians were holding a pow-wow upon a hill here, which rose as
o to th, and
ty, as tory goes, this vice is one
of wy, and whus
engaged the hill shook and suddenly sank, and only one old squaw,
named alden, escaped, and from has been
conjectured t s
side and became t s is very certain, at any rate,
t once this
Indian fable does not in any respect conflict of
t ancient settler wioned, who remembers so well
w came hin vapor
rising from ted steadily downward, and
o dig a ill
t to be accounted for by tion of the
I observe t the surrounding hills are
remarkably full of tones, so t they have been
obliged to pile t
nearest t stones whe
s abrupt; so t, unfortunately, it is no longer a
mystery to me. I detect t derived
from t of some Englisy -- Saffron alden, for instance
-- one mig it was called originally alled-in Pond.
ts
er is as cold as it is pure at all times; and I t it is
t t, in toer,
all er han springs and
ed from it. temperature of the pond
er from five oclock in
ternoon till noon t day, the
ter o 65x or 70x some of time, owing
partly to than
ter of one of t drawn.
temperature of the
of any er tried, t is t t I know of
in summer, surface er is not
mingled . Moreover, in summer, alden never becomes so warm
as most er of its depth.
In t her I usually placed a pailful in my cellar,
, and remained so during the day;
ted to a spring in t was as
good e of
the shore of a
pond, needs only bury a pail of er a fe deep in the shade
of o be independent of the luxury of ice.
t in alden pickerel, one weighing seven
pounds -- to say noth
great velocity, eight pounds
because see s, some of each weighing
over two pounds, shiners, chivins or roach (Leuciscus pulchellus), a
very few breams, and a couple of eels, one weighing four pounds -- I
am ticular because t of a fiss only
title to fame, and the only eels I have heard of here; --
also, I recollection of a little fish some five inches
long, dace-like in
its cer, s to
fable. Nevert very fertile in fiss
pickerel, t abundant, are its c. I
one time lying on t least t
kinds: a long and seel-colored, most like t
in t golden kind, ions and
remarkably deep, w common her,
golden-colored, and s, but peppered on the sides
s, intermixed
blood-red ones, very mucrout. the specific name
reticulatus apply to t status rather.
their size
promises. ts, and perche
fis this pond, are much cleaner, handsomer, and
firmer-fles othe
er is purer, and tinguishem.
Probably many ics ies of some of
tortoises, and a few
mussels in it; muskrats and minks leave traces about it, and
occasionally a travelling mud-turtle visits it. Sometimes, when I
pus in turbed a great mud-turtle
. Ducks and
geese frequent it in te-bellied swallows
(, and ts (totanus
macularius) quot;teeterquot; along its stony shores all summer. I have
sometimes disturbed a fisting on a he
er; but I doubt if it is ever profaned by the wind of a gull,
like Fair most, it tolerates one annual loon. these are
all t it now.
You may see from a boat, in calm he sandy
eastern ser is eigen feet deep, and also
in some ots of the pond, some circular heaps half a dozen
feet in diameter by a foot in , consisting of small stones
less t
first you he ice
for any purpose, and so, o the
bottom; but too regular and some of too fresh
for t. to t as there
are no suckers nor lampreys by w fishey could
be made. Pers of these lend a
pleasing mystery to ttom.
t to be monotonous. I have in
my minds eye tern, indented he bolder
nortifully scalloped southern shore, where
successive capes overlap eac unexplored coves
bet ting, nor is so
distinctly beautiful, as whe middle of a small lake
amid ers edge; for ter in which
it is reflected not only makes t foreground in such a case,
but, s ural and agreeable boundary
to it. tion in its edge there, as
ivated field abuts on it.
trees o expand on ter side, and each
sends forts most vigorous branc direction. there
Nature ural selvage, and t
gradations from to t trees.
traces of mans o be seen. ter laves the
s did a thousand years ago.
A lake is t beautiful and expressive feature.
It is earto whe
depture. tile trees next the shore are
t, and the wooded hills and
cliffs around are its overhanging brows.
Standing on t t end of the pond,
in a calm September afternoon, w e
sinct, I ;the
glassy surface of a lake.quot; your looks like
a t gossamer stretche valley, and
gleaming against tant pine ing one stratum of
tmosp you could walk
dry under it to te the swallows which skim
over mig. Indeed, times dive belohis
line, as it ake, and are undeceived. As you look over
to employ boto
defend your eyes against ted as rue sun, for
t; and if, bets
surface critically, it is literally as smoot where
ter insects, at equal intervals scattered over its whole
extent, by tions in t imaginable
sparkle on it, or, percself, or, as I have
said, a so touc. It may be t in the
distance a fis in the air,
and t flas emerges, and anot
strikes ter; sometimes the whole silvery arc is revealed; or
le-doing on its surface,
and so dimple it again. It is like molten
glass cooled but not congealed, and tes in it are pure and
beautiful like tions in glass. You may often detect a
yet smooter, separated from t as if by an
invisible cober nymping on it. From a
op you can see a fis any part; for not a
pickerel or s from t it
manifestly disturbs t is
elaborateness t is advertised --
t -- and from my distant perch I
distinguisions whey are half a dozen rods
in diameter. You can even detect a er-bug (Gyrinus) ceaselessly
progressing over ter of a mile off; for
ter slightly, making a conspicuous ripple bounded
by t ters glide over it
rippling it perceptibly. ated
ters nor er-bugs on it, but apparently, in calm
days, turously glide forthe
s impulses till tely cover it. It is a
soot, on one of the fall when all
ted, to sit on a stump on
suc as tudy the dimpling
circles s otherwise invisible
surface amid ted skies and trees. Over t expanse
turbance but it is t once gently smoothed away
and assuaged, as, rembling
circles seek t a fish can leap
or an insect fall on t it is ted in circling
dimples, in lines of beauty, as it ant welling up of
its fountain, tle pulsing of its life, ts
breast. thrills of pain are
undistinguishe lake! Again
twig
and stone and cob mid-afternoon as when covered
ion of an oar or an insect
produces a flas; and if an oar falls, the echo!
In sucember or October, alden is a perfect
forest mirror, set round ones as precious to my eye as if
fe time so
large, as a lake, perch. Sky
er. It needs no fence. Nations come and go defiling it.
It is a mirror wone can crack, whose quicksilver will
never inually repairs; no storms,
no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh; -- a mirror in which all
impurity presented to it sinks, s and dusted by the suns hazy
brus dust-clotains no breat
is breat, but sends its oo float as clouds high above
its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still.
A field of er betrays t t is in t is
continually receiving neion from above. It is
intermediate in its nature bethe
grass and trees ter itself is rippled by the wind.
I see reaks or flakes of
lig is remarkable t s surface. e
s length, and
mark ler spirit s.
ters and er-bugs finally disappear in tter part
of October, ws hen and in
November, usually, in a calm day, tely noto
ripple ternoon, in t the end
of a rain-storm of several days duration, will
completely overcast and t, I observed t
t it to
distinguiss surface; t no longer reflected t
tints of October, but the surrounding
as gently as possible, t
undulations produced by my boat extended almost as far as I could
see, and gave a ribbed appearance to tions. But, as I was
looking over t a distance a faint
glimmer, as if some skater insects ws
miged the surface, being so
smootrayed wtom. Paddling
gently to one of to find myself
surrounded by myriads of small perc five inches long, of a
ricer, sporting tantly
rising to t, sometimes leaving bubbles on
it. In sucransparent and seemingly bottomless er, reflecting
to be floating the air as in a balloon,
and t or hovering, as
if t flock of birds passing just beneath my level
on t or left, t all around them.
tly improving the
s season before er er over their
broad skyligimes giving to the surface an appearance as if
a sligruck it, or a fehere. hen I
approachey made a sudden splash
and rippling ails, as if one ruck ter h a
brusantly took refuge in t length
t increased, and to run, and
t of er, a
s, t once above the surface.
Even as late as th of December, one year, I saw some dimples
on t o rain ely,
t, I made e to take my place at the oars
and row hough
I felt none on my cicipated a t
suddenly the perch,
hs, and I saw
t a dry afternoon after
all.
An old man ty years
ago, s, tells me t in
times sa all alive her
er-fo t it. he came here
a-fishe shore.
It and pinned together, and
off square at t lasted a
great many years before it became er-logged and pero
ttom. kno belonged to the pond.
o make a cable for rips of hickory bark
tied togetter, whe pond before
tion, told t at the
bottom, and t . Sometimes it ing
up to t o, it o
deep er and disappear. I o he old log
canoe, erial
but more graceful construction, w been a
tree on t o ter, to
float tion, t proper vessel for the lake.
I remember t o there were
many large trunks to be seen indistinctly lying on ttom, which
on t t
cutting, ly
disappeared.
paddled a boat on alden, it ely
surrounded by ty pine and oak s
coves grape-vines rees next ter and formed
bos
seep, and t,
as you looked do end, it he appearance of an
ampre for some land of sylvan spectacle. I many
an ing over its surface as the zephyr
o the middle, and lying on my back
across ts, in a summer forenoon, dreaming ail I was
aroused by t touco see w shore
my fates o; days w
attractive and productive industry. Many a forenoon olen
ao spend t valued part of the day; for
I was ric in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and
spent t t I did not e more of
teac since I left those
sill furte, and now
for many a year the aisles of
tas ter.
My Muse may be excused if s h. how can you
expect to sing w down?
Norunks of trees on ttom, and the old log canoe,
and the villagers, who
scarcely knoead of going to to bathe
or drink, are to bring its er, which should be as sacred
as t least, to to washeir
diso earn turning of a cock or
dra devilish Iron horse, whose ear-rending
neig town, he Boiling Spring
, and is t he woods on
alden s trojan housand men in his belly,
introduced by mercenary Greeks! rys champion,
to meet t and t an
avenging lance beted pest?
Neverters I have known, perhaps alden
, and best preserves its purity. Many men have been
likened to it, but fe he woodchoppers
t, and the Irish have
built ties by it, and ts
border, and t once, it is itself
uncer whe
c acquired one permanent er
all its ripples. It is perennially young, and I may stand and see a
sly to pick an insect from its surface as of
yore. It struck me again tonig seen it almost
daily for more ty years -- he same
I discovered so many years ago; w
do er anots shore as
lustily as ever; t is o its surface t
is to itself and its
Maker, ay, and it may be to me. It is the work of a brave man
surely, in h his
in , and in his will
bequeat to Concord. I see by its face t it is visited by
tion; and I can almost say, alden, is it you?
It is no dream of mine,
to ornament a line;
I cannot come nearer to God and heaven
to alden even.
I am its stony shore,
And t passes oer;
In the hollow of my hand
Are its er and its sand,
And its deepest resort
Lies .
to look at it; yet I fancy t the
engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who have a
season ticket and see it often, are better men for t. the
engineer does not forget at nigure does not, t he
y and purity once at least during
t once, it o ate Street
and t. One proposes t it be called quot;Gods Drop.quot;
I alden nor outlet, but it
is on tantly and indirectly related to Flints Pond,
wed, by a c
quarter, and on tly and manifestly to Concord River,
whrough which in some
ot may tle digging,
o floher again. If by
living tere, like a in the woods, so
long, it y,
t tively impure ers of Flints Pond should be
mingled , or itself so e its sness in
the ocean wave?
Flints, or Sandy Pond, in Lincoln, our greatest lake and inland
sea, lies about a mile east of alden. It is much larger, being
said to contain one y-seven acres, and is more
fertile in fis it is comparatively s remarkably
pure. A en my recreation. It
o feel the wind blow on your cheek
freely, and see the life of mariners. I
a-cnutting ts
o ter and ; and one
day, as I crept along its sedgy she fresh spray blowing in my
face, I came upon t, the sides gone,
and s flat bottom left amid the
rus its model was s were a large
decayed pad, s veins. It was as impressive a wreck as one
could imagine on t is by
time mere vegetable mould and undistinguishable pond shore,
to admire the
ripple marks on ttom, at this pond,
made firm and o t of the
er, and the rushes which grew in Indian file, in waving lines,
corresponding to the waves had
planted tities,
curious balls, composed apparently of fine grass or roots, of
pipe pero four incer, and
perfectly sper on
a sandy bottom, and are sometimes cast on they are
eittle sand in t first
you tion of the waves, like
a pebble; yet t are made of equally coarse materials,
one season of the
year. Moreover, t, do not so mucruct as
erial hey
preserve te period.
Flints Pond! Sucy of our nomenclature.
rigupid farmer, his
sky er, wo give his
name to it? Some skin-flint, ing
surface of a dollar, or a brig, in which he could see his own
brazen face; as
trespassers; o crooked and bony talons from the
long of grasping is not named for me. I
go not to see o , who
never bat, ed it, who
never spoke a good , nor t .
Rat it be named from t s, the wild
fo, the wild flowers which grow by
its sory is
inters o from itle to it
but ture gave him --
only of its money value; whose presence perchance
cursed all ted t, and would
fain ed ters ; it
Engliso
redeem it, forsooth, in his eyes -- and would have drained and sold
it for t its bottom. It did not turn was
no privilege to o be. I respect not his labors, his
farm ws price, whe landscape,
, if anything for
o market for is; on whing
grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers,
s, but dollars; y of his
fruits, ripe for ill turned to
dollars. Give me ty t enjoys true h. Farmers are
respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor --
poor farmers. A model farm! wands like a fungus in
a muckheap, chambers for men horses, oxen, and swine, cleansed and
uncleansed, all contiguous to one anotocked h men! A
great grease-spot, redolent of manures and buttermilk! Under a high
state of cultivation, being manured s and brains of
men! As if you o raise your potatoes in the churchyard! Such
is a model farm.
No, no; if t features of to be named
after men, let t and men alone. Let our
lakes receive as true names at least as the Icarian Sea, where
quot;still t; a quot;brave attempt resounds.quot;
Goose Pond, of small extent, is on my o Flints; Fair
o contain some seventy
acres, is a mile sout; and e Pond, of about forty acres, is
a mile and a ry.
ter privileges; and night and
day, year in year out, t as I carry to them.
Since tters, and the railroad, and I myself have
profaned alden, per attractive, if not t
beautiful, of all our lakes, te Pond; --
a poor name from its commonness, whe remarkable
purity of its ers or ts sands. In these as in
ots, is a lesser they are so
muc you be connected under ground.
It ony ss ers are of the same hue. As
at alden, in sultry dog-day he woods
on some of its bays t tion
from ttom tinges ts ers are of a misty bluish-green
or glaucous color. Many years since I used to go to collect
tloads, to make sandpaper inued
to visit it ever since. One proposes to call it
Virid Lake. Per mighe
folloance. About fifteen years ago you could see the
top of a pitcs,
t is not a distinct species, projecting above the surface in
deep er, many rods from t was even supposed by some
t tive forest
t formerly stood t even so long ago as 1792, in
a quot;topograpion of to; by one of its
citizens, in tions of tts orical
Society, ter speaking of alden and e Ponds, adds,
quot;In tter may be seen, wer is very
loree now
stands, alts are fifty feet belohe
er; top of tree is broken off, and at t place
measures fourteen incer.quot; In the spring of 49 I
talked told
me t it tree ten or fifteen years before.
As near as stood teen rods from
ter y or forty feet deep. It was in
ter, and ting out ice in the forenoon, and had
resolved t in ternoon, he aid of his neighbors, he
ake out the ice
to over and along and out on to the ice
, before he had gone far in his work, he was surprised
to find t it umps of the
brancing doened in the
sandy bottom. It a foot in diameter at the big end, and
ed to get a good sa it ten as to be
fit only for fuel, if for t. in hen.
tt. he
t t it migree on t was
finally bloo ter top had become
er-logged, ill dry and light, had
drifted out and sunk wrong end up. y years old,
could not remember tty large logs
may still be seen lying on ttom, he
undulation of ter snakes in
motion.
t, for there is
little in it to tempt a fisead of te lily, which
requires mud, or t flag, the blue flag (Iris
versicolor) groer, rising from tony
bottom all around t is visited by hummingbirds in
June; and ts bluiss flowers and
especially tions, is in singular he
glaucous er.
e Pond and alden are great crystals on the
eart. If tly congealed, and
small enougo be clutchey would, perchance, be carried off
by slaves, like precious stones, to adorn t
being liquid, and ample, and secured to us and our successors
forever, er the diamond of Kohinoor.
too pure to value; tain no muck. how
muciful transparent than
our cers, are them. how
muche farmers door, in which his
ducks swim! ure has no human
inant wes heir plumage and
tes are in h or
maiden conspires beauty of Nature? She
flouris alone, far from towns walk
of h.