As a mother comforts her children, so will I comfort you;
‘You shall see and your heart shall rejoice;
you shall flourish like the grass of the fields.’
Isaiah 66:13, 14a
Don’t give me the whole truth,
don’t give me the sea for my thirst,
don’t give me the sky when I ask for light,
but give me a glint, a dewy wisp, a note
as the birds bear water-drops from their bathing
and the wind a grain of salt.
Olaf Hague 1985
Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him,
that his glory may dwell in our land. Ps 85:9
Let the field exult, and everything in it.
Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy
before the Lord; for he is coming,
for he is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness,
and the peoples with his truth. Ps 96:12,13
Salvation equals God – ie glory – with us.
All nature has a feeling woods fields brooks
Are life eternal—& in silence they
Speak happiness—beyond the reach of books
There’s nothing mortal in them—their decay
Is the green life of change to pass away
& come again in blooms revivified
Its birth was heaven eternal is its stay
& with the sun & moon shall still abide
Beneath their night & day & heaven wide
John Clare (1793-1864)
The Green Tau 