Monday, February 13, 2012

bright with miracle


 


“All was as it had ever been -
the worn familiar book
 the oak behind the hawthorn seen,
 the misty woodlands look:

The starling perched up on the tree
 with his long tress of straw
when suddenly heaven blazed on me,
and suddenly I saw:

saw all as it would ever be,
 in bliss too great to tell;
 for ever safe, for ever free,
all bright with miracle.”
(Ruth Pitter)

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