Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Yesterday


A Prayer in 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,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating around the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in the needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
That which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.

       Robert Frost (1915)

1 comment:

  1. What amazing pictures you take!!!! I saw my first bumblebee today-yeah spring is here.

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