Berrying
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 to 1882
Track 1
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'May be true what I had heard,-
Earth's howling wilderness,
Truculent with fraud and force,'
Said I, strolling through the pastures,
And along the river-side.
Caught the blackberry vines,
Feeding on the Ethiops sweet,
Pleasant overtook me.
I said, 'What influence me preferred,
Elect, dreams thus beautiful?'
The vines replied, 'And didst deem
No wisdom from our berries went?'