“After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain to answerin my sleep, as whathowwhenwhere? But there was dawning Nature, in whom all creatures live, looking in at my broad windows with serene and satisfied face, and no questionon her lips. I awoke to an answered question, to Nature and daylight. The snow lying deep on the earth dotted withyoung pines, and the very slope of the hill on which my house is placed, seemed to say, Forward!”
