A week on the concord and Merrimack Rivers.docVIP

Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [a machine-readable transcription] Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library | Table of Contents for this work | | All on-line databases | Etext Center Home %ISOgrk1; %ISOgrk2; About the electronic versionA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Thoreau, Henry David Creation of machine-readable version: Library of America Conversion to TEI-conformant markup: University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center ca. 700 kilobytes This version available from the University of Virginia Library Charlottesville, Va. Available from: Oxford Text Archive U-1647-A /modeng.html 1995 About the print versionA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the Woods ; The Maine Woods ; Cape Cod Henry David Thoreau Editor: Sayre, Robert F. Library of America New York1985 Literary Classics of the U.S. Note: Checked against University of Virginia library copy: PS3042 1985 copy 2 Published: 1849English nonfiction; prose Revisions to the electronic version May 1995 corrector Kelly Tetterton updated header and tagsMay 1995 corrector Deirdre Johnson, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia etextcenter@. Commercial use prohibited; all usage governed by our Conditions of Use: /conditions.html -2- Whereer thou sailst who sailed with me, Though now thou climbest loftier mounts, And fairer rivers dost ascend, Be thou my Muse, my Brother -- . -3- 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. -4- 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 wand