On the Edge of the Road

“The pale flowers of the dogwood outside this window are saints. The little yellow flowers that nobody notices on the edge of that road are saints looking up into the face of God.” – Thomas Merton

 

Nature of the week:

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When the Year Laughs

 

“Then laughs the year; with flowers the meads are bright;

The bursting branches are tipped with flames of light:

The landscape is light; the dark clouds flee above,

And the shades of the land are a blue that is deep as love.”

Robert Bridges, “April” –

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A Rush of Richness

 

“The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush

The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush

With richness.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring”

 

Nature of the week:—pear blossoms:

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