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the clearing rests

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11 Mar

The clearing rests in song and shade…

“The clearing rests in song and shade.

It is a creature made

By old light held in soil and leaf,

By human joy and grief,

By human work,

Fidelity of sight and stroke,

By rain, by water on

The parent stone.

the clearing rests in song and shade

We join our work to Heaven’s gift,

Our hope to what is left,

That field and woods at last agree

In an economy

Of widest worth.

western north carolina native wildflowers

High Heaven’s Kingdom come on earth.

Imagine paradise.

O dust, arise!”

Wendell Berry
journal and lord of the rings
listening to a Hobbit playlist and writing this poem in my journal, or, commonplace book.

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