<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">The Morning’s News</span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">The morning’s news drives sleep out of the head</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">at night. Uselessness and horror hold the eyes</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">open to the dark. Weary, we lie awake</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">in the agony of the old giving birth to the new</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">without assurance that the new will be better.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">I look at my son, whose eyes are like a young god’s,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">they are so open to the world.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">I look at my sloping fields now turning</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">green with the young grass of April. What must I do</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">to go free? I think I must put on</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">a deathlier knowledge, and prepare to die</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">rather than enter into the design of man’s hate.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">I will purge my mind of the airy claims</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">of church and state. I will serve the earth</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">and not pretend my life could better serve.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">Another morning comes with its strange cure.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">The earth is news. Though the river floods</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">and the spring is cold, my heart goes on,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">faithful to a mystery in a cloud,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">and the summer’s garden continues its descent</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); ">through me, toward the ground.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #1f2115"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 33, 21); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Wendell Berry</div></body></html>