h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

March,20,2005

Spring
..................... There is no time like Spring, .........................
..................... When life's alive in everything,......................
..................... Before new nestlings sing, ......................
..................... Before cleft swallows speed their journey back
..................... Along the trackless track~~~ .....................
..................... God guides their wing, .....................
..................... He spreads their table that they nothing lack, .....
..................... Before the daisy grows a common flower .....
..................... Before the sun has power ......................
..................... To scorch the world up in his noontide hour. .....
............... ......................
..................... There is no time like Spring, ......................
..................... Like Spring that passes by; ......................
..................... There is no life like Spring~life born to die,--- ...
.................... ... ... ... ... ... .. .. .. . Christina Rossetti~1830-1894 ~~
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I only found out about Rossetti last year when we studied Woolf's A Room of One's Own, so don't know a lot of her stuff, but this is a very nice poem.

Dear Lady P:..Do read Goblin Market...It is so lush,driping with beauty...I enjoy it everytime I read it...In the bookstore you might find it in the section for children...Her brother Dante was an artist & belonged to a group called the Pre-Raphaelites...Very interesting..... ... .. .

I'll have a look for it, though I doubt if I'll be able to find it here.

Dear Lady P,I promise come late summer of a hot sensual eve, to type up
.... Goblin Market..... .. Morning and evening
........................... Maids heard the goblins cry
........................... "Come buy our orchards fruits,
........................... Come buy,come buy:
........................... Apples and quinces,
........................... Lemons and oranges,
........................... Plump unpecked cherries,~~~~~~[etc.etc.]
........................... All ripe together
........................... In summer weather
........................... Morns that pass by,
........................... Fair eves that fly;
........................... Come buy,come by
........................... Taste them and try: ...................
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