Fool Messages
71. Just sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself72. Spring slattern of seasons you have soggy legs and a muddy petticoat drowsy is your hair your eyes are sticky with dream and you have a sloppy body from being brought to bed of crocuses when you sing in your whisky voice the grass rises on the head of the earth and all the trees are put on edge spring of the excellent jostle of thy hips and the superior
73. The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another the difference between them is sometimes as great as a month
74. Beneath these fruittree boughs that shed their snowwhite blossoms on my head with brightest sunshine round me spread of springs unclouded weather in this sequestered nook how sweet to sit upon my orchardseat and birds and flowers once more to greet my last years friends together
75. Flower in the crannied wall i pluck you out of the crannies i hold you here root and all in my hand little flowerbut if i could understand what you are root and all all in all i should know what god and man is
76. Spring in the world and all things are made new
77. All that is sweet delightful and amiable in this world in the serenity of the air the fineness of seasons the joy of light the melody of sounds the beauty of colors the fragrance of smells the splendor our precious stones is nothing else but heaven breaking through the veil of this world manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature
78. An altered look about the hills a tyrian light the village fills a wider sunrise in the dawn a deeper twilight on the lawn a print of a vermilion foot a purple finger on the slope a flippant fly upon the pane a spider at his trade again an added strut in chanticleer a flower expected everywhere
79. Oh give us pleasure in the flowers today and give us not to think so far away as the uncertain harvest keep us here all simply in the springing of the year oh give us pleasure in the orchard white like nothing else by day like ghosts by night and make us happy in the happy bees the swarm dilating round the perfect trees
80. This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden
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