Everyone Sang
Suddenly this morning - as bright sunshine glowed from the
east - Sassoon’s poem came to life:
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark green fields, on – on – and out of sight.
Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears, and horror
Drifted away…O but Everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will
never be done
Siegfried Sassoon
Never before have I seen a rose and a daffodil bloom
together in my garden in January and I am filled with hope and optimism. As David Attenborough says:
’It’s a wonderful world!’
We should make the most of it.
12 comments:
Yay for birds! [I just wrote about 'bird' too]. After days of rain and gloom, the sun is out today too! Woo hoooo.I never thought I'd be happy to see the sun in the tropics.
Happy everything, Pat.
GG: I'll be over to read it later.
All good wishes back to you and the family.
In the Netherlands apparently spring has started already... but then where was winter?? (I remain suspicious...)
- Marjolein
happy new year! xoxoxoxo
You must live in a tropical paradise compared to where I am at the moment. Gale force winds and frigid temps. It's going to be a few months before the daffodils and roses show up.
Cheers.
Yip, still winter here too! :¬(
xxx
Yay!
Hope it's a good new year for you Pat.
Marjolein: there is always flaming June:)
Thank you Savannah- and to you and yours.xoxo
Randall: last night was a very disturbed one with the French window in the bedroom threatening to burst open and the sound of a waterfall gushing from the gutters. Trees down - roads blocked - the lot!
Map: ours comes and goes and it has just come again.
Kevin: thank you - and for you.
I too saw a golden carpet of dafodils in the park opposite my appartment this morning. Isn't nature wonderful and so full of surprises!
T'will be a time of great joy and merrymaking when the roses and daffodils bloom in January, for this will be the sign.
Keiths ramblings: a carpet of daffodils - now that is really something!
Eryl: promise?
Happy New Year and thank you!
You and Siegfried have put a smile on my face :)
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