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berrying. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 9 (Poems) [1909]

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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 12 vols. Fireside Edition (Boston and New York, 1909).

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    • 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?’