I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness ; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field, goes through every point of pumpkin history.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
If I could be a vegetable, I'd be a pumpkin. It's realistically the only vegetable you can use as a weapon, or in any manner of defense.
I don't know how to tell it—but ef such a thing could beWhen the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
And the Creole of Cuba laughs out to behold,Through orange leaves shining the broad spheres of gold.
O,—fruit loved of boyhood!—the old days recalling,In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team!