Alone in the Woods

Alone in the woods I felt

The bitter hostility of the sky and the trees

Nature has taught her creatures to hate

Man that fusses and fumes

Unquiet man

As the sap rises in the trees

As the sap paints the trees a violent green

So rises the wrath of Nature's creatures

At man

So paints the face of Nature a violent green.

Nature is sick at man

Sick at his fuss and fume

Sick at his agonies

Sick at his gaudy mind

That drives his body

Ever more quickly

More and more

In the wrong direction.