April 30, 2013

  • Spring Illustrated

     Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –         
       When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;         
       Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush         
    Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring         
    The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
       The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush         
       The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush         
    With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.         

     

    What is all this juice and all this joy?         
       A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning
    In Eden garden. – Have, get, before it cloy,         
       Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,         
    Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,         
       Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.   
     
     
     
     
    by Gerard Manley Hopkins
     
    Photo by Yours truly taken on recent hike of Pine Log Creek Trail on the border between Bartow and Cherokee Counties, GA.  Flower is dwarf crested iris which native plant is fond of moist soil.
     
     
     
     
     
          
     

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