Catching up. . .

Hey All,

Sorry I have not posted in a while. I have been out of town and then playing catch up at work when I got back. This will be the Friday with Frost for June 20, 2008.

A Prayer In Spring
by Robert Frost

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.

Nate Notes

I love this poem primarily for the last stanza. God's greatest manifestation of love is that He created us, to sanctify His bountious creations, by us having joy therein.

To Robert Frost's A Prayer in Spring I say, Amen.