. Through the year with Thoreau . UP RIVER AND DOWN KIVER FROM HUBBARDS BRIDGE Q xxvii J of the preservation of the beauty of Walden is due tothe Emerson children (Dr. Edward Waldo Emer-son and Mrs. Edith Emerson Forbes), who own agreat portion of the land bordering the pond and aredetermined that no changes shall take place so longas it is in their control. Close by the site of Thoreaus hut, at the head ofthe Deep Cove, there has been erected a hugecairn of stones, each visitor to the spot contributinga stone to the pile. This commemorative idea origi-nated with Bronson Alcott, the Concord ph
. Through the year with Thoreau . UP RIVER AND DOWN KIVER FROM HUBBARDS BRIDGE Q xxvii J of the preservation of the beauty of Walden is due tothe Emerson children (Dr. Edward Waldo Emer-son and Mrs. Edith Emerson Forbes), who own agreat portion of the land bordering the pond and aredetermined that no changes shall take place so longas it is in their control. Close by the site of Thoreaus hut, at the head ofthe Deep Cove, there has been erected a hugecairn of stones, each visitor to the spot contributinga stone to the pile. This commemorative idea origi-nated with Bronson Alcott, the Concord philosopher,whose axe Thoreau borrowed when he began theconstruction of his hut, and whom he afterwardsdescribed as the man of most faith of any tribute to Thoreau has often been quoted: — Much do they wrong our Henry wise and who name thee, cynical to manners civil and refinedTo build thyself in Walden woods a den, —Then flout society, flatter the rude better knew thee, loyal cit
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