RE: OT -tragedy

Title: Re: OT -tragedy
Don,  Thank you for sharing the lovely sonnet.  Here is another garden verse I dearly love:
 
The Garden Spirit
 
I have searched the garden everywhere
To find the Tender One who rounds
The tiny buds to bursting beads
Along the branch,
Who shapes the Lady Slipper
For a fairy foot in Easter woods
And colors Baby Blue Eyes like the sky.
I have hunted under rhubarb leaves,
Around the roots of cedar trees,
And even walked the paths at night
By chance I might surprise some artisan
At work beneath the stars.
 
But nothing, I find no one out there
Tending to the essence of the garden,
Deciding why the rose is red, the lily white
Or ordering the quiet round of seasons.
The spirit of this earth and all her creatures
Lies within and not without.
A holiness, a power and a mystery
Beyond our finest reasons.
 
Author unknown
 

 

 
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com [mailto:owner-perennials@mallorn.com]On Behalf Of Don Martinson
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 12:26 PM
To: perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: OT -tragedy

The President has declared tomorrow, Friday, a national day of prayer and remembrance.
For many, that may involve a house of worship.  For others, the peace of our own gardens can offer solace.  Consider the words of Wordsworth:

But list! A voice is near;
Great Pan himself low-whispering through the reeds,
Be thankful, thou; for if unholy deeds
Ravage the world, tranquility is here!"
              -Wordsworth, "Water Sonnets"



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Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mailto:llmen@wi.rr.com

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