Yet More Pictures
Yet, surely, when the level ray
Of some mild eve's descending sun
Lights on the village pastor, grey
In years ere ours had well begun--
As there--in simplest vestment clad,
He speaks beneath the churchyard tree
In solemn tones,--but yet not sad,--
Of what Man is--what Man shall be!
And clustering round the grave, half hid
By that same quiet churchyard yew,
The rustic mourners bend, to bid
The dust they loved a last adieu
--That ray, methinks, that rests so sheen
Upon each briar-bound hillock green,
So calm, so tranquil, so serene,
Gives to the eye a fairer scene,--
Speaks to the heart with holier breath
Than all this pageantry of Death.--
Of some mild eve's descending sun
Lights on the village pastor, grey
In years ere ours had well begun--
As there--in simplest vestment clad,
He speaks beneath the churchyard tree
In solemn tones,--but yet not sad,--
Of what Man is--what Man shall be!
And clustering round the grave, half hid
By that same quiet churchyard yew,
The rustic mourners bend, to bid
The dust they loved a last adieu
--That ray, methinks, that rests so sheen
Upon each briar-bound hillock green,
So calm, so tranquil, so serene,
Gives to the eye a fairer scene,--
Speaks to the heart with holier breath
Than all this pageantry of Death.--
Helleborus orientalis
Geranium maderense 'Alba', about as big as a geranium can get.
In contrast, the leaves of Geranium renardii.
Mahonia lomariifolia
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