Mirm's Nook: The Century

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The Century

2 comments:

kathy said...: Is this your work? It's awesome, whoever did it! How's the little bean growing? Do we know what it is yet? Exciting times!; April 20, 2009 at 12:42 PM
jhjonze said...: Updates on the baby please... :); June 5, 2009 at 1:55 PM

"THE ARTIST"

She pented land and seascapes, and she didna pent them ill,
And tuk leeberties wi' Nature for to mak' them finer still.

She pented a' her simmer skies a double extra blue,
Nae Antrim sky since Adam leev'd had ever such a hue.

She acted very leeberal to mountains as to height,
And gied them a' a thousan' feet aboon their size by right.

She even in her picters wad the times and saisons change,
Had new-born lambs at harvest time-a thing we thocht
was strange.

"Imagination, aye," she said, "should guide the penter's hand,"
And that, of course, explain'd the things we didna understand.

-excerpt from "THE ARTIST" by John Stevenson