August at Merry Mount: A Place of Great Bounty

Today, on August 21, 2017, we observed a solar eclipse while noticing that two-thirds of summer has passed.  As we are ensconced in the warmth of summer, we stopped to give thanks for the beauty and bounty that surrounds us.

Summer Song

Air, still as picture lakes,

Ravenshade hammocked me.

Skies, calm as postcard blue

Dreamed, hovered over me.

Phlox, prim as needlepoint,

Wintergreen bowered me.

Day, tall as tamaracks,

Leaned, lowered over me.

Sun, hushed as silences,

Butterflies shadowed me.

World, wide as wonderful,

Bloomed, blossomed over me.

            -John Fandel

A Green Cornfield

The earth was green, the sky was blue:

I saw and heard one sunny morn

A skylark hang between the two,

A singing speck above the corn; ... 

The cornfield stretch'd a tender green

To right and left beside my walks;

I knew he had a nest unseen

Some where among the million stalks:

 

And as I paus'd to hear his song

While swift the sunny moments slid,

Perhaps his mate sat list'ning long,

And listen'd longer than I did.

            -Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)

May the remnants of summer shower you with blessings.

CPW