Category: Quote of the Day

Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff

25NOV2021 – Quote of the Day

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God’s Garden

THE Lord God planted a garden

In the first white days of the world,

And He set there an angel warden

In a garment of light enfurled.

 

So near to the peace of Heaven,

That the hawk might nest with the wren,

For there in the cool of the even

God walked with the first of men.

 

And I dream that these garden closes

With their shade and their sun-flecked sod

And their lilies and bowers of roses,

Were laid by the hand of God.

 

The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the birds for mirth, –

One is nearer God’s heart in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth.

 

For He broke it for us in a garden

Under the olive-trees

Where the angel of strength was the warden

And the soul of the world found ease.

 

Dorothy Frances Gurney

19NOV2021 – Quote of the Day

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (written 1750, publ. 1751)

The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,

The plowman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

 

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,

And all the air a solemn stillness holds,

Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,

And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.

 

Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow’r

The moping owl does to the moon complain.

 

Each in his narrow cell forever laid,

The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

 

The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.

 

For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,

Or busy housewife ply her evening care:

No children run to lisp their sire’s return,

Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.

 

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,

Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;

Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,

The short and simple annals of the poor.

…

Thomas Gray