06 December 2012

"We who are left, how shall we look again ...."



We who are left, how shall we look again

Happily on the sun or feel the rain

Without remembering how they who went

Ungrudgingly and spent

Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain.



A bird among the rain-wet lilac sings –

But we, how shall we turn to little things

And listen to birds and winds and streams

Made holy by their dreams,

Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?



Wilfrid Gibson

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