Sunday 7 February 2021

New every Morning

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Here are the skies all burnished brightly,
Here is the spent earth all re-born,
Here are the tired limbs springing lightly
To face the sun and to share with the morn
In the chrism of dew and the cool of dawn.

Every day is a fresh beginning;
Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain,
And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning,
And puzzles forecasted and possible pain,
Take heart with the day, and begin again.


Susan Coolidge (extract from 'New every morning')




https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/new-every-morning/