Sidney Lanier Elementary

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    “Into the woods my Master went,
    Clean forspent, forspent.
    Into the woods my Master came,
    Forspent with love and shame,
    But the olives they were not blind to Him;”
    —Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)

    “Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
    Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?”
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    “Out of the woods my Master came,
    Content with death and shame.
    When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
    From under the trees they drew Him last:
    ‘Twas on a tree they slew Him—last
    When out of the woods He came.”
    —Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)

    “Listen. We converse as we live—by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.”
    —William Gass (b. 1924)