Henry David Thoreau

Name: Walden — Chapter X: Baker Farm
Author: Henry David Thoreau

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“Walden — Chapter X: Baker Farm”, published in 1893, is a work by Henry David Thoreau. It explores elements such as John Field, bog and Irishman.

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Chapter X: Baker Farm (1893)

“ But therein, as I found, dwelt now John Field, an Irishman, and his wife, and several children, from the broad-faced boy who assisted his father at his work, and now came running by his side from the bog to escape the rain, to the wrinkled, sibyl-like, cone-headed infant that sat upon its father's knee as in the palaces of nobles, and looked out from its home in the midst of wet and hunger inquisitively upon the stranger, with the privilege of infancy, not knowing but it was the last of a noble line, and the hope and cynosure of the world, instead of John Field's poor starveling brat. ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Chapter X: Baker Farm (1893)

“ Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or street, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines because it breathes its own breath over again; their shadows, morning and evening, reach farther than their daily steps. We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.
Before I had reached the pond some fresh impulse had brought out John Field, with altered mind, letting go "bogging" ere this sunset. ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Chapter X: Baker Farm (1893)

“ By the way there came up a shower, which compelled me to stand half an hour under a pine, piling boughs over my head, and wearing my handkerchief for a shed; and when at length I had made one cast over the pickerelweed, standing up to my middle in water, I found myself suddenly in the shadow of a cloud, and the thunder began to rumble with such emphasis that I could do no more than listen to it. The gods must be proud, thought I, with such forked flashes to rout a poor unarmed fisherman. ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Chapter X: Baker Farm (1893)

“ Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures. Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played. Grow wild according to thy nature, like these sedges and brakes, which will never become English bay. ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Chapter X: Baker Farm (1893)

“ O Baker Farm!
"Landscape where the richest element Is a little sunshine innocent." ... "No one runs to revel On thy rail-fenced lea." ... "Debate with no man hast thou, With questions art never perplexed, As tame at the first sight as now, In thy plain russet gabardine dressed." ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Chapter X: Baker Farm (1893)

“ Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs. ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Chapter X: Baker Farm (1893)

“ I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves. A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture. But alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Chapter X: Baker Farm (1893)

“ But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things. ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Chapter X: Baker Farm (1893)

“ but as I ran down the hill toward the reddening west, with the rainbow over my shoulder, and some faint tinkling sounds borne to my ear through the cleansed air, from I know not what quarter, my Good Genius seemed to say -- Go fish and hunt far and wide day by day -- farther and wider -- and rest thee by many brooks and hearth-sides without misgiving. Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures. ”

Henry David Thoreau

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