Monday, April 21, 2008

Spring


I've been reading "The Collected Works of Robert Frost." Here is a poem he wrote about spring.
A Prayer to Spring
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest;keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Lik nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
The whcih it is reserved forGod above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.

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