Poem Composed in Sleep
Dreamed 1867 by Lidian Emerson
Will you walk in the fields, love?
Will you walk in the meadows, love?
Will you walk in the woods, love?
Will you walk by the river, love?
Will you walk on the hill, love?
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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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