Boggy solitudes of Nantucket . LITUDES OF NANTUCKET an entire absence of haste, such a magnificentamplitude of circles and spirals, such ahaughty, imperial grace, and, occasionally,such daring aerial evolutions! Lo here hath been dawning another blue day;Think wilt thou let it slip useless away?Out of Eternity this new day is born ;Into Eternity at night will return. Behold it aforetime no eye ever did;So soon it forever from all eyes is hath been dawning another blue day,Think wilt thou let it slip useless away? —Carlyle. CHAPTER VI HE berry family onthe island of Nan-tucket is large
Boggy solitudes of Nantucket . LITUDES OF NANTUCKET an entire absence of haste, such a magnificentamplitude of circles and spirals, such ahaughty, imperial grace, and, occasionally,such daring aerial evolutions! Lo here hath been dawning another blue day;Think wilt thou let it slip useless away?Out of Eternity this new day is born ;Into Eternity at night will return. Behold it aforetime no eye ever did;So soon it forever from all eyes is hath been dawning another blue day,Think wilt thou let it slip useless away? —Carlyle. CHAPTER VI HE berry family onthe island of Nan-tucket is large, inter-esting, and , there is thecommon blackberry,whose branches inJune are covered withlovely white blos-soms, but also armedwith such stout, shortprickles that one is not tempted a second time to take a spray. Growing along the roadsides and rutted lanes, they are conveniently near for the gatherers of the fruit later on. Sometimes we find them in the pine woods, near the Indian pipes—which seems to indi-es. 64f BOGGY SOLITUDES OF NANTUCKET cate they might be smokers—but here theystand upon a soft go Id en-brown carpet of thefallen pine needles, surrounded by a daintygarden of the fragrant, fragile little pinkish-white pipsissewa, whose anthers give to it apurplish tinge. The shining, smooth ever-green leaves make the whole beautiful plantthe very essence of the woods. In extreme youth the fruit of the black-berries is green, changing afterwards in thesuns warm rays to red, and then black. Amodest little cousin of these is the runningswamp blackberry, with trailing reddishstems and shinrng thick leaves, and delicatewhite blossoms that will later be a small blackfruit, but of little value except to the birds. The blueberries also love the bogs and lowthickets near the orchis and sundews. Theyare well named, for many of them, when ripe,are the loveliest blue, while the huckleberriesare very black. Both the blueberries and huckleberrieswhen young wear white f
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