Anecdote of the Jar

• I placed a jar in Tennessee,
• And round it was, upon a hill.
• It made the slovenly wilderness
• Surround that hill.
• The wilderness rose up to it,
• And sprawled around, no longer wild.
• The jar was round upon the ground
• And tall and of a port in air.
• It took dominion everywhere.
• The jar was gray and bare.
• It did not give of bird or bush,
• Like nothing else in Tennessee.