Friday, December 25, 2015

How Glad I Am

Christmas morning, Upper Turkeyfoot, 2015.


How full of soft, pure light

The western sky is now,

Unless you watch you do not know

When the sun goes down,

It's like a candle extinguished

Without smoke.

How glad I am to hear an owl,

Rather than the most eloquent man of the age!







—HDT, December 25, 1858