Putting In The Seed
You come
to fetch me from my work tonight
When supper's on the table, and we'll see
If I can leave off burying white
Soft petals fallen from the apple tree
(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea);
And g along with you ere you lose sight
Of what you came for and become like me,
Slave to a Springtime passion for the earth.
How love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On through the watching for that early bird
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.
~ R. Frost
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"What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts
were gone,
men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever
happens to the beasts, soon happens to man.
All things are connected."
- Chief Seattle
"For if one link in nature's chain might be lost,
another
might be lost, until the whole of things will
vanish by piecemeal."
- Thomas Jefferson
"There is nothing in which the birds differ more
from
man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a
landscape as it was before."
- Robert Lynd |
