Friday, January 15, 2010

The Frost performs its ministry....


The Frost performs its ministry,
Unhelped by any wind....


...But thou... shalt wander like a breeze 
By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags


Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds,
Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores
And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear
The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible
Of that eternal language, which thy God
Utters, who from eternity doth teach
Himself in all, and all things in himself.
Great universal Teacher! he shall mould
Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask.


 Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth



With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing

Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch
Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.
-Frost at Midnight, by Samuel Coleridge

1 comment:

Brooke Hereth said...

aw. happy b-day Landon!