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On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon

by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Methinks all things have travelled since you shined,
But only Time, and clouds, Time's team, have moved;
Again foul weather shall not change my mind,
But in the shade I will believe what in the sun I loved.




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