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The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Garden

Many things the garden shows,
And pleased I stray
From tree to tree
Watching the white pear-bloom,
Bee-infested quince or plum.
I could walk days, years, away
Till the slow ripening, secular tree
Had reached its fruiting-time,
Nor think it long.

Solar insect on the wing
     In the garden murmuring,
     Soothing with thy summer horn
     Swains by winter pinched and worn.

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