tion. It is like a silent but sympathizing companion 

 in whose company we retain most of the advantages 

 of solitude, with whom we can walk and talk, or be 

 silent, naturally, without the necessity of talking in 

 a strain foreign to the place. 



I go across N. Barrett's land and over the road 

 beyond his house. The aspect of the Great Meadows 

 is now nearly uniform, the new and exposed grass 

 being nearly as brown and sere as that which was 

 not cut. Thus Nature has been blending and har- 

 monizing the colors here where man had interfered. 



Journal, xi, 296-98. 



