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The wind was rising and falling as it swept across the moorland. The rich purple of the heather had gone, and was succeeded by dull brown sometimes almost grey each little floret of the ling, as Ruskin said, folding itself into a cross as it was dying. Poor little purply-pink petals!
Emerson supplements this picture with the following account of a visit he once made to Walden: "The naturalist waded into the pool for the water plants, and his strong legs were no insignificant part of his armor. On this day he looked for the menyanthes and detected it across the wide pool; and, on examination of the floret, declared that it had been in flower five days.
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