The Weekly Walt: “I Will Take an Egg Out of the Robin’s Nest.”
Since I’m currently writing poem on the holiness of life’s details:
I will take an egg out of the robin’s nest in the orchard,
I will take a branch of gooseberries from the old bush in the garden, and go
and preach to the world;
You shall see I will not meet a single heretic or scorner,
You shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them,
You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white pebble from the beach.
312. “I Will Take an Egg out of the Robin’s Nest,” from the 1900 edition of Leaves of Grass.
