Dear Annie: Celebrating Passover and Earth Day

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very Happy Passover and Happy Earth Day.

Below is a poem by a great lover of nature, Henry David Thoreau.

“O Nature! I do not aspire / To be the highest in thy quire, — / To be a meteor in the sky, / Or comet that may range on high; / Only a zephyr that may blow / Among the reeds by the river low; / Give me thy most privy place / Where to run my airy race. / In some withdrawn, unpublic mead / Let me sigh upon a reed, / Or in the woods, with leafy din, / Whisper the still evening in: / Some still work give me to do, — / Only — be it near to you! / For I’d rather be thy child / And pupil, in the forest wild, / Than be the king of men elsewhere, / And most sovereign slave of care: / To have one moment of thy dawn, / Than share the city’s year forlorn.”

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