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"Much do they wrong our Henry, wise and kind,
   Morose who name thee, cynical to men.
 Forsaking manners civil and refined,
   To build thyself in Walden woods a den,—
 Then flout society, flatter the rude hind.
   We better knew thee, loyal citizen!
 Thou, friendship's all-adventuring pioneer,
   Civility itself wouldst civilize:
 While braggart boors, wavering 'twixt rage and fear,
   Slave-hearths lay waste and Indian huts surprise,
 And swift the Martyr's gibbet would uprear;
   Thou hail'dst him great whose valorous emprise
 Orion's blazing belt dimmed in the sky,—
 Then bowed thy unrepining head to die."

H. S. Salt.

THOREAU'S WORKS.

List of Original Editions.

(1) Published in Thoreau's lifetime:—

• "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers." James Munroe, Boston, 1849.
• "Walden; or, Life in the Woods." Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1854.

(2) Posthumous volumes:—

• "Excursions in Field and Forest," with Memoir by Emerson. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1863.
• "The Maine Woods." Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1864.
• "Cape Cod."                  „             „           „      1865.
• "Letters to Various Persons." Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1865.
• "A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers." Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866.
• "Early Spring in Massachusetts." Passages from the Journal. Edited by H. G. O. Blake. Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1881.
• "Summer." Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1884.
• "Winter."           „           „          „          „      1888.