Henry David Thoreau



                   Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life


                   Within the circuit of this plodding life
                   There enter moments of an azure hue,
                   Untarnished fair as is the violet
                   Or anemone, when the spring strews them
                   By some meandering rivulet, which make
                   The best philosophy untrue that aims
                   But to console man for his grievances
                   I have remembered when the winter came,
                   High in my chamber in the frosty nights,
                   When in the still light of the cheerful moon,
                   On every twig and rail and jutting spout,
                   The icy spears were adding to their length
                   Against the arrows of the coming sun,
                   How in the shimmering noon of summer past
                   Some unrecorded beam slanted across
                   The upland pastures where the Johnswort grew;
                   Or heard, amid the verdure of my mind,
                   The bee's long smothered hum, on the blue flag
                   Loitering amidst the mead; or busy rill,
                   Which now through all its course stands still and dumb
                   Its own memorial, — purling at its play
                   Along the slopes, and through the meadows next,
                   Until its youthful sound was hushed at last
                   In the staid current of the lowland stream;
                   Or seen the furrows shine but late upturned,
                   And where the fieldfare followed in the rear, 
                   When all the fields around lay bound and hoar
                   Beneath a thick integument of snow.
                   So by God's cheap economy made rich
                   To go upon my winter's task again.


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