Date: Apr.,2001
This morning, as I was reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau in the balcony, a waft of summer perfume----som hidden link of association in what I read----I know not wht it may have been----too me into a pleasant and lightsome mood of long release from taskes. Could any place and time have been more appropriate to read this book? Mild winds were shaking the branches of the trees in front of my balcony, the blossoms of magnolia are blowing. The winds which passed over me were such as sweep over the trees and flowers in the garden, “bearing the broken strains, or celestial parts only, of terrestrial music” (by Thoreau) (“笙箫吹断水云间,此曲只应天上有”). The morning wind forever blows, but few are the ears that hear it. I read but little, the winds and flowers also afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Walden……
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