"In them

the ground is wise. They are

its remembrance of what it is."

The Wild

                        Wendell Berry

The Bath

"So birds of peace and hope and love

Come fluttering earthward from above,

To settle on life's window-sills,

And ease our load of earthly ills;

But we, in traffic's rush and din

Too deep engaged to let them in,

With deadened heart and sense plod on,

Nor know our loss till they are gone."

                                The Sparrow

                                                                Paul Laurence Dunbar