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"May be true what I had heard,
Earth's a howling wilderness
Truculent with fraud and force,"
Said I, strolling through the pastures,
And along the riverside.
Caught among the blackberry vines,
Feeding on the Ethiops sweet,
Pleasant fancies overtook me:
I said, "What influence me preferred
Elect to dreams thus beautiful?"
The vines replied, "And didst thou deem
No wisdom to our berries went?"
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At first the narrator sees nature as a harsh and abrasive thing. Then as he walks through a beautiful and serene pasture he realizes how amazing nature can be and it hits him that actuall wisdom goes into the creation of nature.
James