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And bear an untamed aspect to my sight,
After the "civil-suited" night;
As if ye had lain out
Like to the Indian scout
Who lingers in the purlieus of the towns
With unexplored grace and savage frowns.
August, 1841.
[A little more than a year later, Thoreau wrote the following in his Journal, this fragment of which was rescued and preserved by the Thatcher family]:—
Saturday, October 15, 1842.
Thursday, I went over to Naushautuct[1] only to look into the horizon; for, as long as I have lived here, and as many times as I have been there, I could not have told how it appeared. When I discovered over how
- ↑ This is the way Thoreau then spelled the Indian name of the hill between the two rivers Assabet and Musketaquid, which he so often visited from the Parkman house (where the Library now stands) in which he was living in 1842. It commands a view of nine or ten townships,—Acton, Bedford, Billerica, Carlisle, Concord, Lincoln, Lexington, Sudbury, Wayland and Framingham,—in whole or in part; and was often the resort of the villagers. Wachusett, Watatic and Monadnoc with the nearer Peterboro Hills can be descried from it in clear weather, and Nobscot, the nearest high hill in Framingham, above the Wayside Inn.—Ed.
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