The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. With Bibliographical Introductions And Full Indexes. in Ten Volumes
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I shall be a benefactor if I conquer some 398 NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT realms from the night, if I report to the gazettes anything transpiring about us at that season worthy of their attention, — if I can show men that there is some beauty awake while they are asleep, — if I add to the domains of poetry. Night is certainly more novel and less pro- fane than day. I soon discovered that I was acquainted only with its complexion, and as for the moon, I had seen her only as it were through a crevice in ...a shutter, occasionally. Why not walk a little way in her light? Suppose you attend to the suggestions which the moon makes for one month, commonly in vain, will it not be very different from any- thing in literature or religion? But why not study this Sanskrit? What if one moon has come and gone with its world of poetry, its weird teachings, its oracular suggestions, — so divine a creature freighted with hints for me, and I have not used her? One moon gone by unnoticed ? I think it was Dr.
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