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Historic Home on Craven Street
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New Moon, Blair Water.
"May 24, 19--
"'For lo, the winter is past: the rain is over and gone: the flowers appear on the earth: the time of the singing of birds has come.'
"I'm sitting on the sill of my open window in my own dear room. It's so lovely to get back to it every now and then. Out there, over Lofty John's bush, is a soft yellow sky and one very white little star is just visible where the pale yellow shades off into paler green. Far off, down in the south 'in regions mild of calm and serene air' are great cloud-palaces of rosy marble. Leaning over the fence is a choke-cherry tree that is a mass of blossoms like creamy caterpillars. Everything is so lovely--'the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear with hearing.'
"Sometimes I think it really isn't worth while to try to write anything when everything is already so well expressed in the Bible. That verse I've just quoted for instance--it makes me feel like a pigmy in the presence of a giant. Only twelve simple words--yet a dozen pages couldn't have better expressed the feeling one has in spring.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Emily Climbs"
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