"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may." Robert Herrick

"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may." Robert Herrick

Hello Friends!

Friends, Romans, countrymen...y'all. Foodies, gardeners, artists and collectors - let's gather together to share and possibly learn a thing or two in the mix.

Donna Baker

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A River Runs Through It Redux


I forgot to include this Woolybooger in my previous post. This is an old fly fishing lure I have and it's a woolybooger. Made from red hairs underneath a deer tail, my guess is that is resembles a bug of some sort. This girl grew up catching fish at the lake or the ocean. I have never fly fished. It looks like too much work and too cold. I'd rather play around in the water and watch my cork. I do love to fish though. Following is the Wordsworth piece I loved so much from Ode: Intimations on Immortality.

What though the radiance which was once so bright, be taken now forever from our sight.
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower,
we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
What having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death and in the years that bring the philosophic mind.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joy, and fears.
To me the meanest (smallest) flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

4 comments:

Tess Kincaid said...

Heehee, I've never heard anyone else use the word "woollybooger"! That's what we fondly call all the groundhogs that lurk around the manor.

Xi said...

What a beautiful ode!

Tess Kincaid said...

Donna, no, I didn't get that genealogy stuff. Did you send it to willow.willowmanor@gmail.com?

Thanks SO much, my friend. I'll keep an eye out for it!

Ry @ Sotto Il Monte Vineyards said...

My Dad used to take us fishing every Sunday in the summers. Haven't been in quite some time. Think I'll do a little ocean fishing this summer. Thanks for the inspiration!