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Here I realize the meaning of that old fellow who said he was seldom less alone than when alone. Never before did I get so close to Nature; never before did she come so close to me. By old habit, I pencill'd down from time to time, almost automatically, moods, sights, hours, tints and outlines, on the spot.
After all of which the name "Cedar-Plums Like" got its nose put out of joint; but I cannot afford to throw away what I pencill'd down the lane there, under the shelter of my old friend, one warm October noon. Besides, it wouldn't be civil to the cedar tree. Feb. 10, '81. And so the flame of the lamp, after long wasting and flickering, has gone out entirely.
At a large popular meeting at Topeka the Kansas State Silver Wedding, fifteen or twenty thousand people I had been erroneously bill'd to deliver a poem. As I seem'd to be made much of, and wanted to be good-natured, I hastily pencill'd out the following little speech.
Why not confide that these lines are pencill'd on the edge of a woody bank, with a glistening pond and creek seen through the trees south, and the corn we are writing about close at hand on the north? Why not even the tiny, turtle-shaped, yellow-back'd, black-spotted lady-bug that has lit on the shirt-sleeve of the arm inditing this?
Here are some of my memoranda of the past winter, just as pencill'd down on the spot. A January Night. Fine trips across the wide Delaware to-night. Tide pretty high, and a strong ebb. River, a little after 8, full of ice, mostly broken, but some large cakes making our strong-timber'd steamboat hum and quiver as she strikes them.
On the day of his death he wrote the following in it, to-day the doctor says I must die all is over with me ah, so young to die. On another blank leaf he pencill'd to his brother, dear brother Thomas, I have been brave but wicked pray for me. It is Sunday afternoon, middle of summer, hot and oppressive, and very silent through the ward.
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