Lawrence Hall, HSG
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                                        ­  So Fast Thou Grow’st

                                     Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 11

                      I put something out there in the universe…

                      -Chris-in-the-Morning, Northern Exposure


You will make something beautiful in any event
Even if only a silly ceramic frog
Holding a perfectly pointless umbrella
Upon the tree-stump where you feed the birds

That silly ceramic frog will someday break
The stump will rot away into the earth
The birds will live through their generations
And you will be but whisperings in the wind

But you make life beautiful in any event:
It is a forever that you put into the universe