. Through the year with Thoreau . d polygala near the Cor-ner Spring is a delicate flower, with very fresh tendergreen leaves and red-purple blossoms; beautiful fromthe contrast of its clear red-purple flowers with itsclear green leaves. Journal, iv, 74. [ 22 ] MAY FOLIAGE May 17, 1852. Now the sun has come out afterthe May storm, how bright, how full of freshness andtender promise and fragrance is the new world! Thewoods putting forth new leaves; it is a memorableseason. So hopeful! These young leaves have thebeauty of flowers. . Do I smell the young birchleaves at a distance. Most trees are
. Through the year with Thoreau . d polygala near the Cor-ner Spring is a delicate flower, with very fresh tendergreen leaves and red-purple blossoms; beautiful fromthe contrast of its clear red-purple flowers with itsclear green leaves. Journal, iv, 74. [ 22 ] MAY FOLIAGE May 17, 1852. Now the sun has come out afterthe May storm, how bright, how full of freshness andtender promise and fragrance is the new world! Thewoods putting forth new leaves; it is a memorableseason. So hopeful! These young leaves have thebeauty of flowers. . Do I smell the young birchleaves at a distance. Most trees are beautiful whenleafing out, but especially the birch. After a stormat this season, the sun comes out and lights up thetender expanding leaves, and all nature is full of lightand fragrance, and the birds sing without ceasing,and the earth is a fairyland. The birch leaves are sosmall that you see the landscape through the tree,and they are like silvery and green spangles in thesun, fluttering about the tree. Journal, iv, 61, f i.
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