Wordless Wednesday a Couple of Days Late and With Some Words

A relaxing moment brought to you by Dig Nursery on Vashon Island about which I'll share more soon.

 If you're chomping at the bit to hear more about DIG!  Check out their site here, Danger Garden's visit here, and my previous post here.  In the meantime, aren't these floating peonies lovely?

 

 

Silent Noon

Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,—

   The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:

   Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms

'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass.

All round our nest, far as the eye can pass,

   Are golden kingcup fields with silver edge

   Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge.

'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fiy

Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky:—

   So this wing'd hour is dropt to us from above.

Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,

This close-companioned inarticulate hour

   When twofold silence was the song of love.

                                Dante Gabriel Rossetti

 

May you have a happy and peaceful Friday!

 

Ralph Vaughan Williams' setting of the Rossetti text is gorgeous!