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      Henry David Thoreau

      The Nature Books of Henry David Thoreau – 6 Titles in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)

      Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod

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      Table of Contents

       A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

       Walden (Life in the Woods)

       The Maine Woods

       Cape Cod

       A Yankee in Canada

       Canoeing in the Wilderness

      A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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      Where'er thou sail'st who sailed with me,

       Though now thou climbest loftier mounts,

       And fairer rivers dost ascend,

       Be thou my Muse, my Brother—.

      I am bound, I am bound, for a distant shore,

       By a lonely isle, by a far Azore,

       There it is, there it is, the treasure I seek,

       On the barren sands of a desolate creek.

      I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind,

       New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find;

       Many fair reaches and headlands appeared,

       And many dangers were there to be feared;

       But when I remember where I have been,

       And the fair landscapes that I have seen,

       Thou seemest the only permanent shore,

       The cape never rounded, nor wandered o'er.

      Fluminaque obliquis cinxit declivia ripis;

       Quae, diversa locis, partim sorbentur ab ipsa;

       In mare perveniunt partim, campoque recepta

       Liberioris aquae, pro ripis litora pulsant.

       Ovid, Met. I. 39

      He confined the rivers within their sloping banks,

       Which in different places are part absorbed by the earth,

       Part reach the sea, and being received within the plain

       Of its freer waters, beat the shore for banks.

       Concord River

       Saturday

       Sunday

       Monday

       Tuesday

       Wednesday

       Thursday

       Friday

      Concord River

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      "Beneath low hills, in the broad interval

       Through which at will our Indian rivulet

       Winds mindful still of sannup and of squaw,

       Whose pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies,

       Here, in pine houses, built of new-fallen trees,

       Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell."

      Emerson.

      The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history, until the fame of its grassy meadows and its fish attracted settlers out of England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of Concord from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commenced in a spirit of peace and harmony. It will be Grass-ground River as long as grass grows and water runs here; it will be Concord River only while men lead peaceable lives on its banks. To an extinct race it was grass-ground, where they hunted and fished, and it is still perennial grass-ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. "One branch of it," according to the historian of Concord, for I love to quote so good authority, "rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar-swamp in Westborough," and flowing between Hopkinton and Southborough, through Framingham, and between Sudbury and Wayland, where it is sometimes called Sudbury River, it enters Concord at the south part of the town, and after receiving the North or Assabeth River, which has its source a little farther to the north and west, goes out at the northeast angle, and flowing between Bedford and Carlisle, and through Billerica, empties into the Merrimack

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