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\"Spring<\/a>I love Robert Frost’s gentle reminder to enjoy the beauty of today. It helps me remember to enjoy not only spring, but also my sweet boys. I hope you enjoy the poem as well.<\/p>\n

A Prayer in Spring
\nby Robert Frost (1915)<\/p>\n

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
\nAnd give us not to think so far away
\nAs the uncertain harvest; keep us here
\nAll simply in the springing of the year.<\/p>\n

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
\nLike nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
\nAnd make us happy in the happy bees,
\nThe swarm dilating round the perfect trees.<\/p>\n

And make us happy in the darting bird
\nThat suddenly above the bees is heard,
\nThe meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
\nAnd off a blossom in mid air stands still.<\/p>\n

For this is love and nothing else is love,
\nThe which it is reserved for God above
\nTo sanctify to what far ends He will,
\nBut which it only needs that we fulfil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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