"I'm going out to clear the pasture spring.
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may).
I shan't be gone long. You come too."
-Robert Frost, "The Pasture"
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| My favorite tree! an ancient European beech. |
"There's not a flower on all the hills, -the frost is on the pane;
I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again."
Alfred Tennyson, "The May Queen"
"I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high-
I long to see a flower so before the day I die."
"The May Queen"
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| Lenten roses. |
"My life flows on in endless song;
Above earth's lamentation
I hear the sweet tho' far-off hymn
That hails a new creation.
Thro' all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing;
It finds an echo in my soul--
How can I keep from singing?"
-hymn, attr. Pauline T.
"What tho' my joys and comforts die?
The Lord my Savior liveth;
What tho' the darkness gather round?
Songs in the night He giveth."
"No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that refuge clinging;
Since Christ is Lord of heav'n and earth,
How can I keep from singing?"
"My life is like a frozen thing,
No bud nor greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall-- the sap of Spring;
O Jesus, rise in me."
Christina Rossetti, "A Better Ressurrection"
There... and back again. A flower's tale.
