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WINTER: FROM THE JOURNAL
OF HENRY D. THOREAU

EDITED BY H. G. O. BLAKE

Knowledge means
Ever-renewed assurance by defeat
That victory is somehow still to reach;
But love is victory, the prize itself.

Browning

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1888