Cherish the Cherries

Hello, my lovelies.
A recommended read: A Standard of Living by Dorothy Parker.
Fun Fact(s):
Cherries are a good source of vitamin C and fibre. Eating cherries
can protect our hearts, prevent cardiovascular disease, lower total
blood cholesterol levels, reduce fatty acids, prevent and manage
diabetes better, reduce pain and inflammation, and help reduce post
exercise muscle pain.

Cherry-Time
by Emily Dickinson

Cherries of the night are riper
Than the cherries pluckt at noon
Gather to your fairy piper
When he pipes his magic tune:
Merry, merry,
Take a cherry;
Mine are sounder,
Mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter
For the eater
Under the moon.
And you’ll be fairies soon.

In the cherry pluckt at night,
With the dew of summer swelling,
There’s a juice of pure delight,
Cool, dark, sweet, divinely smelling.
Merry, merry,
Take a cherry;
Mine are sounder,
Mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter
For the eater
In the moonlight.
And you’ll be fairies quite.

When I sound the fairy call,
Gather here in silent meeting,
Chin to knee on the orchard wall,
Cooled with dew and cherries eating.
Merry, merry,
Take a cherry;
Mine are sounder,
Mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter.
For the eater
When the dews fall.
And you’ll be fairies all.

It all started when I found the picture of cherries, thought it was quite nice, then took the obliged myself to collect a bunch of cherry health-facts and scrummage a decent cherry-related poem. I rather like it, anyway, it's quite magical, isn't it?