Lovely things make life easier.



I've had this hanging in my bathroom for the past month. Every morning, as I get out of the shower, I read it. Those that know me know I'm averse to poetry that rhymes. But there's something about the simplicity of this that makes me feel...peaceful. And hopeful.



For winter's rains and ruins are over,

And all the season of snows and sins;

The days dividing lover and lover,

The light that loses, the night that wins;

And time remembered is grief forgotten,

And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,

And in green underwood and cover

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.



Algernon Charles Swinburne  (1837–1909)

Atalanta in Calydon (1865)



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