“An Early Unconverted Saint...”
by Henry D. Thoreau

An early unconverted Saint,
Free from noontide or evening taint,
Heathen without reproach,
That did upon the civil day encroach,
And ever since its birth
Had trod the outskirts of the earth.

Return to Henry D. Thoreau: Works 
Return to Henry D. Thoreau: Works: Poetry 

A Note on the Text:

• Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906) p. 43]

• Title from first line

• Report errors to the Curator of Collections