Saturday, May 29, 2010


Music stirs me, for you
Sea and
Cloud
Mountain and Star
touch me for you.
Alien things only turn
the whole prayer of my heart
to you
All noble paintings
wake the dream of you
All singing lines
lead home to your memory --
Beauty is everywhere kin.

-- Ricarda Huch
(in Heaven's Face Thinly Veiled,
edited by Sarah Anderson)

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