Green

I took my bike over the common today for a short easy ride. It's all greening up beautifully and made me think of this:

The Garden

Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness;
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find,
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that’s made
To a green thought in a green shade.


Andrew Marvell