Re: ferns in literature


Fantastic!!!! I will check it out

Many Many thanks

Matt Busby

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 Vita444@aol.com wrote:

> Some more fern references--
> 
> We seek for slumbering trout, 
> And whispering in their ears 
> Give them unquiet dreams; 
> Leaning softly out 
> >From ferns that drop their tears 
> Over the young streams, 
> 
> 
> The Stolen Child   William Butler Yeats
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> Over the hills in Shutesbury, Leverett
> driving with you in spring     road
> like a streambed unwinding downhill
> fiddlehead ferns uncurling
> spring peepers ringing sweet and cold
> 
> The Spirit of Place   Adrienne Rich
> 
> 
> Then we turned over a musty log, 
> 
> With lichens on it in a row, 
> 
> And found some fiddleheads of ferns 
> 
> Uncoiling out of the moss below. 
> 
> 
> Discovery   Harry Behn
> 
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