Recovered Greenness

How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean Are thy returns! ev’n as the flowers of spring; To which, beside their own demean, The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring. Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such thing.   Who would have thought my...
God’s Grandeur – Crushed

God’s Grandeur – Crushed

crushed…. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;      And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;      And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And,...