Hope springs...

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There has been much expounding of the virtues of spring 
on the human psyche  (you see I have been lurking a little).
I have been mulling over spring for three weeks now 
and I have been too encumbered 
by the domestic travails of moving house and home, 
as you know - you would have had to be
 living in outer Mongolia to miss this titbit.

However all I want to say on Spring is encompassed in these few words ...


Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

-Alexander Pope,
An Essay on Man, Epistle I, 1733

Comments

  1. Woman in a Window11:31 pm, March 23, 2009

    And sometimes it's just so darned far away...but always the hope, right, the looking forward.

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  2. skywind6:05 am, March 24, 2009

    Spring is the season of hope. A spring vigor. :)
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  3. Anonymous6:55 am, March 24, 2009

    This time of year always cheers me up, especially as the spring flowers start to bloom.

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  4. Anonymous8:49 am, March 24, 2009

    Spring came as a relief to me, this year. But I can see how it's passing almost unnoticed for you, with the move and all!

    'Hope springs eternal' .. .isn't it funny how that phrase is all that most people know of that poem?

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  5. Anonymous8:49 am, March 24, 2009

    "Hope springs eternal"

    I think that's been my motto in life just recently!

    Lovely photograph.

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  6. A Woman Of No Importance11:28 am, March 24, 2009

    Wondrous, Saz! You have been so much on my mind - Are things going well, and are they frantic? Much love and light to you, dear friend, Fhi x

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  7. RiverPoet1:41 pm, March 24, 2009

    Well done!

    I hope everything is going swimmingly with the house move...D

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  8. Suldog3:24 pm, March 24, 2009

    I couldn't agree more. Without hope, without renewal, I am much less than happy. I can't wait for a few things to start blooming over here...

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  9. Daryl6:04 pm, March 24, 2009

    Hope. Its what we all need. Glad things are calming down a bit, I hope so anyway

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  10. Anonymous6:52 pm, March 24, 2009

    New life and new beginnings, what a wonderful season Spring is.

    CJ xx

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  11. Expat mum8:56 pm, March 24, 2009

    I wish Chicago's spring would make its mind up. This morning I wore a fairly light weight coat but this afternoon it was back to the long parka. Pah!

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  12. Janie11:50 pm, March 24, 2009

    It's true, spring is all about hope and looking forward.
    Speaking of hope, sure hope the move is about done.

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  13. skywind12:44 pm, March 25, 2009

    Spring has come, hope in the eyes.
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  14. cheshire wife3:40 pm, March 25, 2009

    It might look like Spring but it seems to have gone back to being Winter here.

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  15. Saz10:26 pm, March 26, 2009

    I'd rather have pigeon on toast than running about, fluttering around me, they may be gods creatures, but they are known as the flying rats as they carry the same about of disease and germs..so perhaps not to eat then!!

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Take the weight of your feet, draw up a chair and pour yourself a cuppa. Leave your troubles at the door and together we shall ride out the storms.


Saz x

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