Laurel in the Berkshires
Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold flood.
Adelaide Crapsey
Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold flood.
Surrounded by the mountain laurel of the Berkshires, the speaker feels an abrupt, joyful pull toward fantasy. Those pale, pink-tinged blossoms suddenly look like sea-foam and coral, and that one glimpse is enough to whisk her imagination away from the rocky pastures and into the ocean.
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