Stowe notes, letters and verses . fe, and the following most precious records of whatwas passing in his soul during the same period, both ofthese, however fragmentary, achieved under the heavyburden of illness, show faculties of the first order. Hisexquisite perceptions come to us as clear of his earthlyvicissitudes as violets or crystals out of the sod. Emersons closing words upon Thoreaus death in-sist upon associating themselves with Taber: The country knows not yet, or in the least part, howgreat a son it has lost. It seems an injury that he shouldleave in the midst of his broken task, whi
Stowe notes, letters and verses . fe, and the following most precious records of whatwas passing in his soul during the same period, both ofthese, however fragmentary, achieved under the heavyburden of illness, show faculties of the first order. Hisexquisite perceptions come to us as clear of his earthlyvicissitudes as violets or crystals out of the sod. Emersons closing words upon Thoreaus death in-sist upon associating themselves with Taber: The country knows not yet, or in the least part, howgreat a son it has lost. It seems an injury that he shouldleave in the midst of his broken task, which none else canfinish—a kind of indignity to so noble a soul, that itshould depart out of Nature before he has been reallyshown to his peers for what he is. But he, at least, iscontent. His soul was made for the noblest society; hehad in a short life exhausted the capabilities of thisworld; wherever there is knowledge, wherever there isvirtue, wherever there is beauty, he will find a home. Abbott H. Thayer STOWE NOTES1890-1893. JANUARY Even in the calmest summer day, or moonlightnight, or still autumn afternoon, I have never, it seemsto me, seen the landscape more tranquil. The hues aresoft and harmonious; all that was crude and harsh incolor has been gradually eliminated. The raw tintsof green in the winter fields have changed to a glowing,subdued orange. The woods no longer form a contrast, but blendquietly into the scene. The Mountain,* under a palefilm-spread sky, rising a ponderous slaty-blue mass abovethe warm-tinted valley, gives a fine eflfect of snow that remains in the rocky crevices, now thatit is melted in the valley below, suggests alpine effect is enhanced by what little snow remainsclinging among the woods on the side; it is formed intoperpendicular whitish streaks, and conveys an impres-sion of successive and precipitous cliffs. A column of blue smoke rises on Luces Hill, andmounts up, swayed but not dispersed by the almost im-percep
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