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Willows. (excerpt from 'Faith in a Seed')

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From: Harper's Magazine
Date: 19930501
Author:Thoreau, Henry David

From Faith in a Seed, by Henry David Thoreau, a collection of Thoreau's previously unpublished writings published by Island Press/Shearwater Books, in Washington, D.C. Bradley P. Dean, the editor of the volume, reconstructed Faith in a Seed from thousands of pages of Thoreau's notes, including the detailed daily account of the local flora in Concord, Massachusetts, that the writer kept until his death in 1862. A longer excerpt from Faith in a Seed appeared in the May/June issue of The Sciences.

On June 9, 1860, we had half a dozen distinct summer showers, from back clouds ...

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