{"id":456,"date":"2011-11-02T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2011-11-02T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T19:35:10","slug":"new-song-using-a-bit-of-text-from-walden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/new-song-using-a-bit-of-text-from-walden\/","title":{"rendered":"New Song Using a Bit of Text from “Walden”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using a bit of text out of “The Ponds” section from Thoreau’s “Walden” for a new song titled As Above, So Below<\/em> for my \u00a0Fisherman Songs<\/em> cycle:<\/p>\n

Sometimes, after staying in a village parlor till the family had all retired, I have returned to the woods, and, partly with a view to the next day’s dinner, spent the hours of midnight fishing from a boat by moonlight, serenaded by owls and foxes, and hearing, from time to time, the creaking note of some unknown bird close at hand. These experiences were very memorable and valuable to me, — anchored in forty feet of water, and twenty or thirty rods from the shore, surrounded sometimes by thousands of small perch and shiners, dimpling the surface with their tails in the moonlight, and communicating by a long flaxen line with mysterious nocturnal fishes which had their dwelling forty feet below, or sometimes dragging sixty feet of line about the pond as I drifted in the gentle night breeze, now and then feeling a slight vibration along it, indicative of some life prowling about its extremity, of dull uncertain blundering purpose there, and slow to make up its mind. At length you slowly raise, pulling hand over hand, some horned pout squeaking and squirming to the upper air. It was very queer, especially in dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came to interrupt your dreams and link you to Nature again. It seemed as if I might next cast my line upward into the air, as well as downward into this element, which was scarcely more dense. Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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