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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.
Robert Frost
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Adolf Hitler
(6/25/2009 11:50:00 AM) |
Andrew Scriber is gay........
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Bhaswat Chakraborty
(3/28/2009 5:25:00 AM) |
Frost breaks the trichotomy of prayer, love and God. He finds the unity of the three in the beauty of the spring, the beauty of the present!
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Andrew Hoellering
(2/24/2009 6:21:00 PM) |
The last verse is akwardly expressed -unusual for Frost.The poem reads like a prayer, and the thought behind it has been well expressed by Erich Fromm: 'Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing and walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which live implies? '
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Marilyn Warmington
(3/12/2008 11:25:00 PM) |
The poem creates a moving picture of spring in the orchard. Those trees grow wild and the white blossoms never cease to bring me happiness. The description of the way the bees pollinate brings the belief that nature is so remarkable. The simplest things are not only majestic but God-given.
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Robert Howard
(7/31/2006 9:06:00 AM) |
This gracious hope filled poem has been given a beautiful hymn setting that is included in the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook.
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