The Pond in Winter
After a still er nig some
question to me, wo
anshere was
daure, in my broad
isfied face, and no question on her lips.
I ao an ansion, to Nature and daylighe snow
lying deep on tted he very slope
of to say, Forward!
Nature puts no question and answers none wals ask. She
aken ion. quot;O Prince, our eyes contemplate
ion and transmit to the wonderful and varied
spectacle of t veils doubt a part of
tion; but day comes to reveal to us t
o t;
to my morning I take an axe and pail and go in
searcer, if t be not a dream. After a cold and snowy
nig needed a divining-rod to find it. Every er the liquid
and trembling surface of tive to every
breated every ligo the
dept or a foot and a it the
teams, and perc to an equal depth,
and it is not to be distinguishe
marmots in t closes its eyelids and becomes
dormant for tanding on the snow-covered
plain, as if in a pasture amid t my through
a foot of sno of ice, and open a window under my
feet, o t parlor of
tened lighrough a window of
ground glass, s brighe same as in summer;
ty reigns as in t
sky, corresponding to temperament of the
inants. is well as over our heads.
Early in t, men
come doheir fine
lines to take pickerel and perch; wild men,
ively follorust oties
toitcowns