Sleeping Ute Mountain from the North, our dining room, McElmo Canyon

Spring and Fall

Gerard Manly Hopkins

to a young Child

Margaret are you grieving

Over Goldngrove unleaving?

Leaves like the things of man, you

With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

A! as the heart grows older

It will come to such sights colder

By and by, nor spare a sigh

Though worlds of wanwood leaf meal lie;

And yet you will weep and know why.

Now no matter, child the name:

Sorrow's springs are the same

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed

What heart heard of, ghost guessed:

It is the blight man was born for,

It is Margaret you mourn for.

The West Mancos Overlook, 1992

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View of the Montezuma Valley from Shark's Tooth Trail, 1992