During out last US trip in October/November 2014 we also visited Hampton Plantation in South Carolina, and somewhere in the garden i found a sign with this poem written on it.
It's been in my head ever since, and thought people here might like it as well.
Whenever i think of life's light that must fade
The gleams and the glow that must pass in the shade;
When hopes that i had now but leave me afraid-
With joy i remember the garden i made
The redbuds and dogwoods i planted will grow;
The flaming azaleas will blossom, i know;
The chaliced syringa's wild beauty will show
When i shall be one with the long, long ago
The glimmering gardenias, the wildflowers wan,
The red rose, the lily as white as a swan;
The garden i made will keep blossoming on
When life with its fevers is faded and gone.
Archibald H. Rutledge (1883-1973)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Rutledge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Plantation
[video=youtube;x1HXiLf_WW4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1HXiLf_WW4[/video]
It's been in my head ever since, and thought people here might like it as well.
Whenever i think of life's light that must fade
The gleams and the glow that must pass in the shade;
When hopes that i had now but leave me afraid-
With joy i remember the garden i made
The redbuds and dogwoods i planted will grow;
The flaming azaleas will blossom, i know;
The chaliced syringa's wild beauty will show
When i shall be one with the long, long ago
The glimmering gardenias, the wildflowers wan,
The red rose, the lily as white as a swan;
The garden i made will keep blossoming on
When life with its fevers is faded and gone.
Archibald H. Rutledge (1883-1973)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Rutledge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Plantation
[video=youtube;x1HXiLf_WW4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1HXiLf_WW4[/video]
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