betrothed

“If I get married, I want to be very married.” 

- Audrey Hepburn

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, 

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 

Love one another but make not a bond of love: 

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. 

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. 

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. 

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, 

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. 

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. 

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. 

And stand together, yet not too near together: 

For the pillars of the temple stand apart, 

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.” 

- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

            

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summer swim

there is a pleasure in the pathless woods... 

Lord Byron

Loving Tennyson

The Lady of Shallot

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson ~

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On either side the river lie

Long fields of barley and of rye,

That clothe the wold and meet the sky;

And through the field the road runs by

            To many-towered Camelot; 

And up and down the people go, 

Gazing where the lilies blow 

Round an island there below,

            The island of Shalott.

tides are low

The Sea Spirit
by Lucy Maud Montgomery

I smile o'er the wrinkled blue­

Lo! the sea is fair,

Smooth as the flow of a maiden's hair;

And the welkin's light shines through

Into mid-sea caverns of beryl hue,

And the little waves laugh and the mermaids sing,

And the sea is a beautiful, sinuous thing! 

The Brook

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

I come from haunts of coot and hern, 

I make a sudden sally 

And sparkle out among the fern, 

To bicker down a valley.