Saturday 13 March 2010

Leith Links

Looks like Leith is ahead of Edinburgh in the Spring stakes.
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  1. A poem for a picture !15 March 2010 at 10:50

    THE CROCUS

    Beneath the sunny autumn sky,
    With gold leaves dropping round,
    We sought, my little friend and I,
    The consecrated ground,
    Where, calm beneath the holy cross,
    O'ershadowed by sweet skies,
    Sleeps tranquilly that youthful form,
    Those blue unclouded eyes.

    Around the soft, green swelling mound
    We scooped the earth away,
    And buried deep the crocus-bulbs
    Against a coming day.
    "These roots are dry, and brown, and sere;
    Why plant them here?" he said,
    "To leave them, all the winter long,
    So desolate and dead."

    "Dear child, within each sere dead form
    There sleeps a living flower,
    And angel-like it shall arise
    In spring's returning hour."
    Ah, deeper down cold, dark, and chill
    We buried our heart's flower,
    But angel-like shall he arise
    In spring's immortal hour.

    In blue and yellow from its grave
    Springs up the crocus fair,
    And God shall raise those bright blue eyes,
    Those sunny waves of hair.
    Not for a fading summer's morn,
    Not for a fleeting hour,
    But for an endless age of bliss,
    Shall rise our heart's dear flower

    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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