Singly or thick-clustered, little, pointed rounds of ruby and polished agate, the berries of the dogwood redden,
Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]
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- Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]
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- Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914
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- New York: E.P. Dutton and Company
- 1906
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"Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAP5363.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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pointing with changeless flame, as flashes of fire might a great smoke, the dense green of its leaves. The roadway is scattered with their crimson. Nearby the wahoo's capsules, a rosy cinnabar, have opened, disclosing their vermilion seeds—seemingly the imprisoned carmine of the autumn sunset.
Not quite so conspicuous as the wahoo, the spice bush too bleeds with berries; their glistening red pungently aromatic to taste and smell; it does not permit the dogwood to outdo it in brightness of color.