<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">The Morning’s News</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">The morning’s news drives sleep out of the head</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">at night. Uselessness and horror hold the eyes</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">open to the dark. Weary, we lie awake</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">in the agony of the old giving birth to the new</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">without assurance that the new will be better.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">I look at my son, whose eyes are like a young god’s,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">they are so open to the world.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">I look at my sloping fields now turning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">green with the young grass of April. What must I do</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">to go free? I think I must put on</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">a deathlier knowledge, and prepare to die</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">rather than enter into the design of man’s hate.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">I will purge my mind of the airy claims</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">of church and state. I will serve the earth</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">and not pretend my life could better serve.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">Another morning comes with its strange cure.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">The earth is news. Though the river floods</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">and the spring is cold, my heart goes on,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">faithful to a mystery in a cloud,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">and the summer’s garden continues its descent</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class="">through me, toward the ground.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 17);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Wendell Berry</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>