. Through the year with Thoreau . [ 93 J How cheerful these cold but bright white wavingtufts! They reflect all the suns light without a par-ticle of his heat, or yellow rays. A thousand suchtufts now catch up the sun and send to us his lightbut not heat. His heat is being steadily withdrawnfrom us. Light without heat is getting to be the pre-vailing phenomenon of the day now. Journal, xii, 391, 392. November 8, 1859. The tufts of purplish witheredandropogon in Witherell Glade are still as fair asever, soft and trembling and bending from the wind;of a very light mouse-color seen from the side
. Through the year with Thoreau . [ 93 J How cheerful these cold but bright white wavingtufts! They reflect all the suns light without a par-ticle of his heat, or yellow rays. A thousand suchtufts now catch up the sun and send to us his lightbut not heat. His heat is being steadily withdrawnfrom us. Light without heat is getting to be the pre-vailing phenomenon of the day now. Journal, xii, 391, 392. November 8, 1859. The tufts of purplish witheredandropogon in Witherell Glade are still as fair asever, soft and trembling and bending from the wind;of a very light mouse-color seen from the side of thesun, and as delicate as the most fragile ornamentsof a ladys bonnet; but looking toward the sun theyare a brilliant white, each polished hair (of the *) reflecting the November sun without its heats,not in the least yellowish or brown like the golden-rods and asters. Journal, xii, 442. C 94 ] COBWEB DRAPERY IN BARRETTS MILL October 19, 1858. Ride to Sam Barretts pleased again to see the cobweb drapery of th
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