I think I remember a tradition of poetry on February 2. Happy Groundhog Day, Happy Imbolc, Happy Brigid's Day and Candlemas.... have a poem:
Some would distinguish nothing here but oaks, Proud heads conversant with power and glory Of heaven's rays or heaven's thunderstrokes, and adumbrators to the understory, Where in shade, small trees of modest leanings Contend for light and are content with gleanings. And yet here's dogwood: overshadowed, small, But not inclined to droop and count its losses, It cranes its way to sunlight after all, And paints the air of May with Maltese crosses. And here's witch hazel, that from underneath great vacant boughs will bloom in winter's teeth. Given a source of light so far away That nothing, short of tall, comes very near it, Would it not take a proper fool to say That any tree has not the proper spirit? Air, water, earth and fire are to be blended, but no one style, I think, is recommended. Richard Wilbur A Wood
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