Peccioli 13:08 – Photo courtesy of Molly Marot

I. NEW HAMPSHIRE

Children’s voices in the orchard

Between the blossom- and the fruit-time:

Golden head, crimson head,

Between the green tip and the root.

Black wing, brown wing, hover over;

Twenty years and the spring is over;

To-day grieves, to-morrow grieves,

Cover me over, light-in-leaves;

Golden head, black wing,

Cling, swing,

Spring, sing,

Swing up into the apple-tree.

From T. S. Eliot’s ‘Landscapes’ – As selected by Molly Marot, assistant to the Villa Lena Art Foundation.

Morrona 20:38 – Photo courtesy of Molly Marot