Sunday, May 23, 2010

THE EARTH LAUGHS FLOWERS...




In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break.
                                                                       Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1865
Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.
                                                                                                                                                                 Chinese proverb

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