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“There shall be
Eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
Celia Thaxter
“Who shall compass or fathom God's thought profound?
We can but praise, for we may not understand;
But there's no more beautiful riddle the whole world round
Than is hid in this heap of dust I hold in my hand.”
Celia Thaxter, An Island Garden
“When was has vanished, nature strives to restore her original order of things, and she smooths away gradually all traces of his work with the broad hands of her changing seasons.”
Celia Thaxter, An Island Garden
“«¡El zarapito! ¿lo oyes?»; y muy pronto la buena noticia corre de boca en boca: <<¡El zarapito ha llegado!». Ay, la suave nota se repite una y otra vez: «¡Sí, sí, sí!», resonando con suavidad en la quietud de las ensenadas cubiertas por la marea, donde las aguas inmóviles parecen guardar silencio solo para escu-char. No hay otro canto de ave más tierno que yo conoz-ca: ese es el más bello y exquisito, como una caricia que se escucha en el silencio de rocío en la mañana y el atar-decer. Tiene muchas y variadas notas, así como reclamos: coloquiales, laborales, meditativos... y el de terror cuando algún ser malvado amenaza su amado nido, que me rompe el corazón. Pero su canto más tierno, ese «¡Sí, sí, sí!», es un sonido fascinante y repleto de felicidad que nunca deja de animar el corazón que lo escucha. Es como oír la voz del amor.”
Celia Thaxter, An Island Garden
“To the heart of Nature one must needs be drawn in such a life-and very soon I learned how richly she repays in deep refreshment the reverent love of her worshipper. Infinite varieties of beauty always awaited m, and filled me with such an absorbing, unreasoning joy such as makes the song-sparrow sing- a sense of perfect bliss. Like countless rosy trumpets tossed everywhere about the rocks, turned up to the sky, drooping toward the ground, or looking east, west, north, south in silent loveliness. It seemed as if they had gathered the peace of the golden morning in their still depths even as my heart has also.

Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson”
Celia Laighton Thaxter

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