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A fine, still, warm moonlight evening. We have had one or two already. Moon not yet full. To the woods by the Deep Cut at 9 o’clock. The blueness of the sky at night - the color it wears by day - is an everlasting surprise to me, suggesting the constant presence and prevalence of light in the firmament, that we see through the veil of night to the constant blue, as by day. The night is not black when the air is clear, but blue still. The great ocean of light and ether is unaffected by our partial night. Night is not universal. At midnight I see into the universal day. Walking at that hour, unless it is cloudy, still the blue sky o’erarches me. 1853 Other Entries |