. Through the year with Thoreau. hem for the remains of summer flowers now has-tening to their fall; you thought you knew everytwig and leaf by the roadside, and nothing morewas to be looked for there; and now, to your surprise,these ditches are crowded with millions of littlestars. They suddenly spring up and face you, withtheir legions on each side the way, as if they hadlain in ambuscade there. The flowering of theditches. Call them travellers thoughts, numerousthough small, worth a penny at least, which, sownin spring and summer, in the fall spring up unob-served at first, successively dus
. Through the year with Thoreau. hem for the remains of summer flowers now has-tening to their fall; you thought you knew everytwig and leaf by the roadside, and nothing morewas to be looked for there; and now, to your surprise,these ditches are crowded with millions of littlestars. They suddenly spring up and face you, withtheir legions on each side the way, as if they hadlain in ambuscade there. The flowering of theditches. Call them travellers thoughts, numerousthough small, worth a penny at least, which, sownin spring and summer, in the fall spring up unob-served at first, successively dusted and washed,mingled with nettles and beggar-ticks as a highwayharvest. A starry meteoric shower, a milky way,in the flowery kingdom in whose aisles we the traveller bethink himself, elevate and ex-pand his thoughts somewhat, that his successorsmay oftener hereafter be cheered by the sight of anAster Novce-AnglioB or spectabilis here and there, to 1 The photographs are of the A. Tradescanti and the A.
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