Melody's Blog – April 2010 Archive (8)

WHO HAS SEE N the wind?
Neither I nor you.
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I,
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.

CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Dedicated to Beloved Sister and Beautiful Friend, Sue

Don't run around this world

looking for a hole to hide in.



Thee are wild beasts in every cave!

If you live with mice,

the cat claws will find you.



The only real rest comes

when you're alone with God.



Live in the nowhere that you came from,

even though you have an address here.



That's why you see things in two ways.

Sometimes you look at a person

and see a cynical snake.



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Also in this He showed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazelnut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marveled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasteth, and ever shall last for that God loveth it. And so All-thing hath the Being in… Continue

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life, they incite to noble deeds.

ARISTOTLE.

Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray,

But bid for, Patience is! Patience who asks

Wants war, wants wounds; weary his times, his tasks;

To do without, take tosses, and obey.

Rare patience roots in these, and, these away,

Nowhere. Naturla heart's ivy, Patience masks

Our ruins of wrecked past purpose. There she basks

Purple eyes and seas of liquid leaves all day.



We hear our hearts grate on themsleves: it kills

to bruise them dearer. Yet the… Continue

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