Nell Grey's Blog - Posts Tagged "edward-fitzgerald"

The clocks went forward a week ago, and still I find myself taking an hour off the given time in order to know the 'real' time. Perhaps I just don't like change.

But who could fail to notice and be cheered by the fact that that Spring is well and truly on the way? The trees are showing signs of waking after their winter sleep - some are dressed in blossom; lily-like ramsom leaves already carpet the woods at the end of our road and baby rabbits wait until the last minute to dash to the edge of the park for cover as I stop breathing and hope the little earth dog hasn't seen them. He has of course, but he'll be fourteen this year and although still pretty fit is less interested these days.

I haven't yet heard a cuckoo, but the hollow tattoo of a woodpecker drumming high in the bare branches of a sycamore echos through the woods, and I wonder whether he's enlarging a hole for a nest or simply looking for insects.

The quatrain on the card is from Edward Fitzgerald's creative translation of
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. I don't know which bird symbolized Time for either Omar or Edward, but it's good advice.

Come, fill the Cup...