A Virgin Wearing a White Ruff

by Henry David Thoreau

[The] yarrow is particularly fresh and perfect, cold and chaste, with its pretty little dry-looking rounded white petals and green leaves.
Its very color gives it a right to bloom above the snow, as level as a snow-crust on the top of the stubble.
It looks like a virgin wearing a white ruff.

 

Note: Henry David Thoreau wrote this in his journal on this day in 1855.

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Henry David Thoreau, an influential American essayist, poet, and philosopher, known for his work in Transcendentalism and civil disobedience.
Henry David Thoreau, an influential American essayist, poet, and philosopher, known for his work in Transcendentalism and civil disobedience.