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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 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 [124]