I opened a poetry anthology at complete random for something to go with this image (an experiment in -- whatever) and I'm not kidding you -- this is what I saw first:. . .a deep radiance lay
Full on the ancient ivy, which usurps
Those fronting elms, and now, with blackest mass
Makes their dark branches gleam a lighter hue
Through the late twilight. . .
That's Coleridge, This Lime Tree Bower My Prison
(has anyone since the 19th century read this poem?)
I like the lines a few steps on:
Henceforth I shall know
That Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure;
No plot so narrow, but be Nature there,
No waste so vacant, but may well employ
Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart
Awake to love and beauty!
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I won't say I loved that poem, Coleridge was never a favourite, but I did have to read this particular poem for a poetry class I took (big mistake, the class, that is. I did quite well, but dreaded every class).
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