New leaves lke yellow lace --- filter late-day sunlight gently, --- letting through a fragile glow. --- This is no sacrifice for them. --- As they drink in the light becomes them. --- Our serendipity! --- We drink it, too.

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Grüsse aus Calgary sandte mir Fritz B. Voll am 18. September 2001 mit diesem Gedicht von Matthew Arnold

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Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold in his poem "Dover Beach"