Macro of orange nasturtium flower.
Title from one of the Rubaiyat (Quatrains) by Persian astronomer Omar Khayyam, as translated by Edward FitzGerald, and adapted musically by Hamilton Camp (see below).
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File: Spring_IMG_9750-DPCCome, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Thy Winter-garment of repentance fling
The Bird of Time has but a little way to flutter
And Lo! The bird is on the wing
Moving finger writes, and, having writ, moves on
Nor all your piety nor wit can bring it back
To cancel half a line, nor all your tears
Wash out a word of it
Into this universe, and why not knowing
Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing
Nor out of it like wind along the waste
I know not whither willy-nilly blowing
Here with a book of verse, beneath the bough
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou
Beside me, singing in the Wilderness
Ah, Wilderness! Paradise enow! |