Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Walt Whitman

With the scent of lilacs featuring heavily on this warm day, it brought from my memory, this elegy written for President Lincoln.


WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d—and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
  
O ever-returning spring! trinity sure to me you bring;
Lilac blooming perennial, and drooping star in the west,         5
And thought of him I love.

(enjoy the rest of it here.)

The walk also garnered violets, many blisters and $.35.

1 comment:

  1. Your lovely little window-boxes are making me jealous!!

    No lilacs here, but finally a few trees firmly deciding to bloom. And the ring-necked doves are attacking a tree in the oval garden out front, as they did last year. It's hilarious - a twiggy tree, with barely a few fuzzy green pods on it, being staked out by five very fat, heavy birds, gorging themselves on...something. Not sure what.

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