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here a fortnight ago and the field was comparatively barren. 

 Now you come, and these glorious redeemers appear to have 

 flashed out here all at once. Who plants the seeds of Lu- 

 pines in the barren soil ? Who watereth the Lupines in 

 the field?" 



The Precision of Leaf and Flower of Lupine. 



I looked from a car window, and lo ! the Long 

 Island Railroad ran also through an Elysian Field 

 of Lupines, nay, we sailed a swift course through a 

 summer sea of blueness, and I seem to see it still, 

 with its prim precision of outline and growth of 

 both leaf and flower. The Lupine is beautiful in 

 the garden border as it is in the landscape, whether 

 the blossom be blue, yellow, or white. 



Thoreau was the slave of color, but he was the 

 master of its description. He was as sensitive as 

 Keats to the charm of blue, and left many records 

 of his love, such as the paragraphs above quoted. 



