Where waving woods and waters wild, do hymn an autumn sound.
Sit still — as all transform’d to stone, except your musing heart.
And how you heard the green woods sing, beneath the freshening wind.
For every breath that stirs the trees, doth cause a leaf to fall.
We cannot bear its visitings, when change is on the heart.
In spring, the sky encircled them — the sky is round them still.
Whatever prospect Heaven doth bound, can ne’er be desolate.
With thanks and apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but I have to respectfully disagree. I will count down the days until spring. Until then, I might be a tad crabby.
6 comments:
Poor Pam. Love the verse and the bleak pics. Come over to my place to warm up, love!
:-)
BB
I love Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I also love the pic of those red berry thingys. The water in our patio plants froze for the first time last night. Ugh, I'm not ready.
Hi Pam, It looks so cold! Hope you can stay nice and warm and don't have to venture out too much. I won't tell you how warm it is here - oh hang on I just did - sorry!
Cheers
You Aussies are cruel. Cruel, I tell you.
It snowed all day, a kind of sleety snow that was heavy and wet under grey skies. And so it begins....
Pam, do you have a copy of Vikki's
holiday recipe for making *something*
containing Cuervo? Love the pictures!
Lynne, go to the post on 12/19/07 or just put Christmas Cookie Recipe in the blog search and you'll find it.
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