A Prayer in Spring

Robert Frost (1915)

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; 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. And make us happy in the darting bird That suddenly above the bees is heard, The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill, And off a blossom in mid air stands still. For this is love and nothing else is love, The which it is reserved for God above To sanctify to what far ends He will, But which it only needs that we fulfill.

Springtime

With the coming of spring, nature wakes up from a time of hibernation. Flowers begin to bloom, opening upward to the warmth of the sun. Along with this, people can begin to awake from a time of dreaming, putting their dreams from wintertime into action with renewed energy. Nonetheless, it is important that these dreams have a firm foundation so that they may be attainable and not just "castles in the air."