CHAPTER VIII. September, 1851 (ÆT. 34) 440

Disease the Rule of Existence—Finding one’s Faculties—Telegraphs—Moose-lipped Words—Cato’s De Re Rustica—The Horse and Man—Health and Disease—The Telegraph Harp—Walking in England—A Walk to Boon’s Pond in Stow—The Farmer and His Oxen—Tempe and Arcadia—Footpaths for Poets—Writing on Many Subjects—Dammed Streams—The Dog of the Woods—J. J. G. Wilkinson—Fastidiousness—A Lake by Moonlight—A Formalist—The Fullness of Life—Creatures of Institutions—Moments of Inspiration—Gladness—A September Evening—Singing heard at Night—Moonlight on the River—Fair Haven by Moonlight—Northern Lights—Soaring Hawks—The Grass and the Year—The Sky at Night—A Factory-Bell—Sunrise—The Color of the Poke—The Stone-mason’s Craft—Moral Effort—Benvenuto Cellini—An Endymion Sleep—The Mountains in the Horizon—The Telegraph Harp—Perambulating the Bounds—A Pigeon-Place—An Elusive Scent—The Cross-leaved Polygala.

ILLUSTRATIONS

STAR-FLOWERS (TRIENTALIS) Frontispiece Carbon photograph (page 266)

FAIR HAVEN POND FROM THE CLIFFS Colored plate

FAIR HAVEN POND FROM THE CLIFFS 10

NOVEMBER WOODS 86

FIRST SNOW 122

MIDWINTER 150

TOWN BROOK, PLYMOUTH 364

THE JOURNAL OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU