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Updated: May 1, 2025
The last two days have been faultless in sun, breeze, temperature and everything; never two more perfect days, and I have enjoy'd them wonderfully. My health is somewhat better, and my spirit at peace. Another jotting, another perfect day: forenoon, from 7 to 9, two hours envelop'd in sound of bumble-bees and bird-music.
Though Nature maintains, and must prevail, there will always be plenty of people, and good people, who cannot, or think they cannot, see anything in that last, wisest, most envelop'd of proverbs, "Friendship rules the World."
So beautifully veiled and varied the air, with that early-summer perfume, not at all damp or raw at times Luna languidly emerging in richest brightness for minutes, and then partially envelop'd again. Far off a poor whip-poor-will plied his notes incessantly. It was that silent time between 1 and 3. The rare nocturnal scene, how soon it sooth'd and pacified me!
To-day, Sunday afternoon and till nine in the evening, visited Campbell hospital; attended specially to one case in ward I, very sick with pleurisy and typhoid fever, young man, farmer's son, D. F. Russell, company E, 60th New York, downhearted and feeble; a long time before he would take any interest; wrote a letter home to his mother, in Malone, Franklin county, N. Y., at his request; gave him some fruit and one or two other gifts; envelop'd and directed his letter, &c.
Under an old black oak, glossy and green, exhaling aroma amid a grove the Albic druids might have chosen envelop'd in the warmth and light of the noonday sun, and swarms of flitting insects with the harsh cawing of many crows a hundred rods away here I sit in solitude, absorbing, enjoying all.
As I write, I am seated under a big wild-cherry tree the warm day temper'd by partial clouds and a fresh breeze, neither too heavy nor light and here I sit long and long, envelop'd in the deep musical drone of these bees, flitting, balancing, darting to and fro about me by hundreds big fellows with light yellow jackets, great glistening swelling bodies, stumpy heads and gauzy wings humming their perpetual rich mellow boom.
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