Original (inglés)

Produced by David Widger. HTML version by Al Haines. TWICE TOLD TALES FOOTPRINTS ON THE SEA-SHORE By Nathaniel Hawthorne It must be a spirit much unlike my own, which can keep itself in health and vigor without sometimes stealing from the sultry sunshine of the world, to plunge into the cool bath of solitude. At intervals, and not infrequent ones, the forest and the ocean summon me--one with the roar of its waves, the other with the murmur of its boughs--forth from the haunts of men. But I