09.6.08 nod and strive to dream

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Let her be some Sabrina fresh from stream,
Lucent as shallows slowed by wading sun,
Bedded on fern, the flowers’ cynosure:
Then nymph and wood must nod and strive to dream
That she is airy earth, the trees, undone,
Must ape her languor natural and pure.

Ceremony
by Richard Wilbur

St. Croix River at William O’Brien State Park, near Marine-on-St.-Croix, Minnesota.

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One Response to “nod and strive to dream”

  1. Michael Skorulski Says:

    Lovely. Reminds me of endless summer days at the swimming quarry as a kid.

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