"When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Like holy water falls upon the plain, 'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain And see your harvest born. And sweet the little breeze of melody The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree, While the wild poppy lights upon the lea And blazes 'mid the corn."

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Source : Francis Ledwidge (1997). “The complete poems”, The Goldsmith Press Ltd

Francis Ledwidge

#Sweet Quotes #Spring Quotes #Fall Quotes

“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.”
“I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.”
“To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.”
“I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.”
“Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.”
“I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. July 14, 2001.
“That was the way it was that beautiful evening of cold November rain and muddy country roads and crazy windshield wipers. That was the moment of my greatest security and confidence; it was the time when I realized that love makes one a better person, a kinder gentler one.”

Source : Irene Hunt (2005). “Up a Road Slowly”, p.96, Penguin
“We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.”

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