Out in the Fields
Here's a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the beauty and power of nature. Don't know why, but I found this moving when I came across it yesterday.
The little cares which fretted me
I lost them yesterday,
Among the fields, above the sea,
Among the winds at play,
Among the lowing of the herds,
The rustling of the trees,
Among the singing of the birds,
The humming of the bees.
The foolish fear of what might happen,
I cast them all away
Among the clover-scented grass,
Among the husking of the corn,
Where drowsy poppies nod
Where ill thoughts die and good are born—
Out in the fields with God.
CH
Jon
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Frank