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OF AN ORCHARD
Katherine Tynan Hinkson [1861-1931]
Good is an Orchard, the Saint saith,
To meditate on
life and death,
With a cool well, a hive of bees,
A hermit's grot below
the trees.
Good is an Orchard: very good,
Though one should wear no monkish
hood.
Right good, when Spring awakes her flute,
And good in yellowing time
of fruit.
Very good in the grass to lie
And see the network 'gainst the sky,
A
living lace of blue and green,
And boughs that let the gold between.
The bees are types of souls that dwell
With honey in a quiet cell;
The
ripe fruit figures goldenly
The soul's perfection in God's eye.
Prayer and praise in a country home,
Honey and fruit: a man might
come,
Fed on such meats, to walk abroad,
And in his Orchard talk with
God.
From: Stevenson, Burton Egbert.
The Home Book of Verse.
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