I have built a warming fire in my heart As winter sends his greetings to the trees, My late chrysanthemums arrive in joy Camellias in sculptured beauty blossom forth. Though I grow old in human years I pray For many more my youthful self to learn The undiscovered continents of mind To be revealed in the silence of the soul. Today was an extraordinary day. For the first time I became aware Of the enchanting fragrance of magnolia wood And the tenaciousness of a certain weed Among the iris singing by the lake. What is yet to come is a glory wrapped and sealed, Almost invisible to the outer eye, Revealed in beauty to the one who loves And holds the empty chalice to be filled.
Poems Undated (1727)
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