For Jean and Sharyn Augustson who liked nothing more than to go to their haven-heaven of a farm in Finger Lakes, NY and to give us of its bounty year after year.

 Requiescant

 

Gerald Manley Hopkins, Anglican priest and poet, 1844-1889, British

 

A nun takes the veil

 

 

I have desired to go

 

 

Black Doorway 1 and details, 1966, oil on canvas with objects.  Elizabeth Osborne, born 1936, American. On display 2016/2017, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

 

 

Doors leading out of Old St. Mary’s, built in 1763, Philadelphia.  The second Roman Catholic church to be built in the city and at a time when Roman Catholic churches were not permitted to be built where the British ruled

 

Where springs not fail

 

 

Quarry Garden, Winterthur, Delaware.  Every summer the Japanese primrose are in bloom

To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail

 

 

Winterthur, Delaware, 2016

And a few lilies blow

 

 

Lily native to the eastern US.  West Shokan, New York

 

 

Oriental hybrid lily, Longwood Conservatory, Pennsylvania, Spring 2017

 

And I have asked to be

 

A gift of April lilacs set with tulips from the late Jean and the late Sharyn Augustson, the most generous of neighbours, in front of a coloured glass window from a parochial school in Philadelphia, installed 1930s

Where no storms come,

 

 

 

Doorway, 1450-1500, Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, France. Philadelphia Art Museum

Where the green swells in the havens dumb

 

 

Garden, West Shokan, NY, before 2015

And out of the swing of the sea

 

 

 

Views of the meadow garden, Mt. Cuba, Hockessin, Delaware. Summer 2016