Thursday, December 30, 2010
This Small Corner of Paradise
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), The Orchard:
Jasper Francis Cropsey, Apple Blossoms
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Almond, apple, and peach,
Walnut, cherry, plum,
Ash, chestnut, and beech,
And lime and sycamore
We have planted for days to come;
No stony monument
But growing, changing things,
Leaf, fruit, and honied scent,
Bloom that the bees explore,
Sprays where the bird sings.
In other Junes than ours
When the boughs spread and rise
Tall into leafy towers
To grace and guard this small
Corner of paradise;
When petals red and white
Resign to warming air,
Without speech or sight
From our hands they will fall
On happy voices there.
