nuts

Thy mouth to taste of many meats did balk. 30

Nuts were thy food, and poppy caused thee sleep,

Pure water's moisture thirst away did keep.

Strut about all along shore there somewhere close by the Down East

Frog Duck Pond munching of pea nuts and pumpkins and buried in big-wigs

Why ask who ever yet saw money made out of a fat old

For cider, after school, in late September?

Or gather hazel nuts among the thickets

On Aaron Hatfield’s farm when the frosts begin?

That leaves and berries fell into;

Once a dormouse dined there on hazel-nuts,

And grass and goose-grass seeds found soil and grew.

these fallen hazel-nuts,

stripped late of their green sheaths,

And when in cellar they regale,

Bring hazel-nuts to hold their ale;

With bung-holes bored by squirrels well,

Why have ye left your forest haunts, why left

Your nuts in oak-tree cleft?'--

'For wine, for wine we left our kernel tree;

I know the poisons of the shade,

I know the earth-nuts fit for food;

Then, pretty dear, be not afraid;