The Berrying

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Title:     The Berrying
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson [More Titles by Emerson]

'May be true what I had heard,--
Earth's a howling wilderness,
Truculent with fraud and force,'
Said I, strolling through the pastures,
And along the river-side.
Caught among the blackberry vines,
Feeding on the Ethiops sweet,
Pleasant fancies overtook me.
I said, 'What influence me preferred,
Elect, to dreams thus beautiful?'
The vines replied, 'And didst thou deem
No wisdom from our berries went?'

[The end]
Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem: Berrying

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