“The Peace Of Wild Things” By Wendell Berry

“The Peace Of Wild Things” By Wendell Berry

by TeachThought Staff

Presented without context, a beautiful poem about suffering, anxiety about the future, and ultimately–finally–love. By our resident muse, Wendell Berry, here is “The Peace Of Wild Things.”

The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
 of grief.
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light.
For a time 
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

-Wendell Berry

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