The Peace of Wild Things: and Other Poems by Wendell Berry

Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141987132
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2017-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

2.

Since then I have arrived here

many times. I have come

on foot, on horseback, by boat,

and by machine – by earth,

water, air and fire.

I came with axe and rifle.

I came with a sharp eye

and the price of land. I came

in bondage, and I came

in freedom not worth the name.

From the high outlook

of that first day I have come

down two hundred years

across the worked and wasted

slopes, by eroding tracks

of the joyless horsepower of greed.

Through my history’s despite

and ruin, I have come

to its remainder, and here

have made the beginning

of a farm intended to become

my art of being here.

By it I would instruct

my wants: they should belong

to each other and to this place.

Until my song comes here

to learn its words, my art

is but the hope of song.

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