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Poem Composed in Sleep

Dreamed 1867 by Lidian Emerson

Will you walk in the fields, love?
    Let us be gone.
The tall grass will wave to thee
    Fairest one.

Will you walk in the meadows, love?
    Let us be gone.
The Flowrets will greet thee
    Fairest one.

Will you walk in the woods, love?
    Let us be gone.
The tall trees will bend to thee
    Fairest one.

Will you walk by the river, love?
    Let us be gone.
The stream will reflect thee
    Fairest one.

Will you walk on the hill, love?
    Let us be gone.
The blue sky will bend o'er thee
    Fairest one.

NOTES

This is a love poem to her husband Ralph Waldo Emerson, in their old age, apparently composed in a dream.

Sources: Emerson: The Mind on Fire, by R.D. Richardson, 1995, p.558; his manuscript source was Houghton [Houghton Library at Harvard] b Ms Am 1280.220 (132)



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