Poem by Aldous Huxley

Inspiration

Noonday upon the Alpine meadows
Pours its avalanche of Light
And blazing flowers: the very shadows
Translucent are and bright.
It seems a glory that nought surpasses--
Passion of angels in form and hue--
When, lo! from the jewelled heaven of the grasses
Leaps a lightning of sudden blue.
Dimming the sun-drunk petals,
Bright even unto pain,
The grasshopper flashes, settles,
And then is quenched again.

1. In Uncertainty to a Lady
2. Minoan Porcelain
3. Revelation
4. Anniversaries
5. The Flowers

Henry Thoreau Inspiration ("Whate’er we leave to God, God does")

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