So Victoria, Max; but did you find any Down Under?
Doug
On 15-May-08, at 5:44 AM, Max Richards wrote:
> When I was very small, about four years old, I suppose, a line of
> poetry
> entered into my consciousness, never to leave it again:
>
> Rye pappels drop about my head.
>
> I had no idea what rye pappels might be, but they held a magic, an
> enchantment for me, and when in later life I identified them as the
> ripe
> apples of Andrew Marvell's poem they had lost nothing of their
> enchantment
> in the process of growing up.
>
> Victoria Sackville-West, The Illustrated Garden Book
>
Douglas Barbour
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and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
Phyllis Webb
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