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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Plant A Tree
By Lucy Larcom (5 March 1826 - 27 April 1893)
He who plants a tree
Plants a hope.
Rootlets up through fibres blindly grope;
Leaves unfold into horizons free.
So man’s life must climb
From the clods of time
Unto heavens sublime.
Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree,
What the glory of thy boughs shall be?
He who plants a tree
Plants a joy;
Plants […]
Psalm of Life
Monday, July 30th, 2007A Psalm of Life
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882)
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers, |
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not […]
Life Sculpture
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Life SculptureBy George Washington Doane (27 May 1799 - 27 April 1859)Chisel in hand stood a sculptor boyWith his marble block before him,And his eyes lit up with a smile of joy,As an angel-dream passed o’er him.He carved the dream on that shapeless stone,With many a sharp incision;With heaven’s own flight the sculpture shone,He’d caught […]
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