Morning Buds

""I feel a kind of reverence for the first book of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost  sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth."" 

            -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 807-1882)



Twice five years

Or less I might have seen, when first my mind 

With conscious pleasure opened to the charm

Of words in tuneful order, found them sweet

For their own sakes, a passion, and a power;

And phrases pleased me chosen for delight,

For pomp or love. 

           -William Wordsworth (1770-1850)