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Thursday, October 02, 2008

"Ice Harp"

"My friend tells me he has discovered a new note in nature, which he calls the Ice-Harp. Chancing to throw a handful of pebbles upon the pond where there was an air chamber under the ice, it discoursed a pleasant music to him.
Herein resides a tenth muse, and as he was the man to discover it probably the extra melody is in him."
(The Journal of H.D. Thoreau, Dec. 5, 1837)

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