THOUGHTS FROM WRITINGS 



it is devising a change. Set the new 

 moon as something that symbols an 

 increase. Set the shepherd's crook in 

 a corner as a token that the flocks are 

 already enlarged in number. The shep- 

 herd is the symbolic man of the hardest 

 winter-time. His work is never more 

 important than then. Those that only 

 roam the fields when they are pleasant 

 in May, see the lambs at play in the 

 meadow, and naturally think of lambs 

 and May flowers. But the lamb was 

 born in the adversity of snow. Or you 

 might set the morning star, for it burns 

 and burns and glitters in the winter 

 dawn, and throws forth beams like those 

 of metal consumed in oxygen. There is 

 nought that I know by comparison with 

 which I might indicate the glory of the 

 morning star, while yet the dark night 

 hides in the hollows. The lamb is born 

 in the fold. The morning star glitters 

 in the sky. The bud is alive in its 



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