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The Pressed Gentian ~ Sunset Goldstream Interior Alaska

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"THE TIME of gifts has come again, And, on my northern window-pane, Outlined against the day’s brief light, A Christmas token hangs in sight. The wayside travellers, as they pass, Mark the gray disk of clouded glass; And the dull blankness seems, perchance, Folly to their wise ignorance. They cannot from their outlook see The perfect grace it hath for me; For there the flower, whose fringes through The frosty breath of autumn blew, Turns from without its face of bloom To the warm tropic of my room, As fair as when beside its brook The hue of bending skies it took. So from the trodden ways of earth, Seem some sweet souls who veil their worth, And offer to the careless glance The clouding gray of circumstance. They blossom best where hearth-fires burn, To loving eyes alone they turn The flowers of inward grace, that hide Their beauty from the world outside. But deeper meanings come to me, My half-immortal flower, from thee! Man judges from a partial view, None ever yet his brother knew; The Eternal Eye that sees the whole May better read the darkened soul, And find, to outward sense denied, The flower upon its inmost side" Poetry by John Greenleaf Whittier 1872

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2 comments

  • Very nice picture: Love the sky!

    said photo of stepheno3 stepheno3 10 months 2 days ago

  • This looks as if the angels in heaven are sweeping the clouds to one end. Gorgeous isn't it. Love Faith

    said photo of FaithOosthuizen FaithOosthuizen 9 months 20 days ago

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