Wednesday, January 29, 2014
forest
All these giant trees and boulders of granite seemed intent on making a mystery of the course of this small brook; fearing, perhaps, that, with its never-ceasing loquacity, it should whisper tales out of the heart of the old forest whence it flowed, or mirror its revelations on the smooth surface of the pool. Continually, indeed, as it stole onward the streamlet kept up a babble, kind, quiet, soothing, but melancholy, like the voice of a young child that was spending its infancy without playfulness, and knew not how to be merry among sad acquaintances and events of somber hue. (16.23)The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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About Me
- Russell Maycumber
- St. Augustine, Florida, United States
- I spill ink ,it collects here.
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