| "… I have seen the sun break throughto illuminate a small fieldfor a while, and gone my wayand forgotten it. But that was the pearlof great price, the one field that hadtreasure in it. I realize nowthat I must give all that I haveto possess it. Life is not hurryingon to a receeding future, nor hankering afteran imagined past. It is the turningaside like Moses to the miracleof the lit bush, to a brightnessthat seemed as transitory as your youthonce, but is the eternity that awaits you …"'The Bright Field' by R. S. Thomas |
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