Green as a Source of Renewal

In time of silver rain
The earth
Puts forth new life again,
Green grasses grow
And flowers lift their heads,
And over all the plain
The wonder spreads
Of life,
Of life,
Of life!

-Langston Hughes, from In Time of Silver Rain

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Rise us, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth: the time of the singing
of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

- Bible, The Song of Solomon 2:10-13

Green as a Source of Refreshment

It looks like to me
My good-time days done past.
Nothin' in this world
Is due to last.

I used to play
And I played so dog-gone hard.
Now old age has
Dealt my bad-luck card.

I look down the road
And I see a little tree.
A little piece down the road.
I see a little tree.

Them cool green leaves
Is waitin' to shelter me.

O, little tree!

- Langston Hughes, Little Green Tree

Green Love

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
In the Paleozoic time,
And side by side on the ebbing tide
We sprawled though the ooze and slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Carbrian fen,
My heart was rife with the joy of life,
For I loved you even then.

-Langdon Smith, from Evolution

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