Chemistry

When I was in high school, I decorated notebooks in the hopes of organizing my life.  But I also found that I enjoyed the subject more when I added artistic appeal.  It makes me smile, but Chemistry was one of those subjects and now that I am enduring summer classes at community college, I've taken the old highschool chemistry off of the dusty shelf and found this poem on the back of it.  I LOVE this poem and I can't help but think of how the things that touched us greatly in our formative years stay within us and keep singing in our souls as we journey to adulthood.

Peace,
Robyn

Barter

BY SARA TEASDALE

Life has loveliness to sell,

      All beautiful and splendid things,

Blue waves whitened on a cliff,

      Soaring fire that sways and sings,

And children's faces looking up

Holding wonder like a cup.

Life has loveliness to sell,

      Music like a curve of gold,

Scent of pine trees in the rain,

      Eyes that love you, arms that hold,

And for your spirit's still delight,

Holy thoughts that star the night.

Spend all you have for loveliness,

      Buy it and never count the cost;

For one white singing hour of peace

      Count many a year of strife well lost,

And for a breath of ecstasy

Give all you have been, or could be.