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352 And that new wealth which I have got Is part of my own pelf. For while I look for change abroad, I can no difference find, Till some new ray of peace uncalled Illumes my inmost mind. As when the sun streams through the wood Upon a winter's morn, Where'er his silent beams may stray, The murky night is gone. How could the patient pine have known The morning breeze would come, Or simple flower anticipate The insect's noonday hum, Till that new light, with morning cheer, From far streamed through the aisles, And nimbly told the forest trees For many stretching miles?

Nov. 30, 1851. Another cold and windy afternoon, with some snow, not yet melted, on the ground. Under the south side of a hill between Brown's and Tarbell's, in a warm nook, disturbed three large gray squirrels and some partridges, which had all sought out this bare and warm place. While the squirrels hid themselves in the treetops, I sat on an oak stump by an old cellar hole, and mused. This squirrel is always an unexpectedly large animal to see frisking about. My eye wanders across the valley to the pine woods which fringe the opposite