Keywords: liquidambar styraciflua liquidambarstyraciflua taxonomy:binomial=liquidambar styraciflua taxonomy:binomial=liquidambarstyraciflua usgs droege biml patuxent tree liquidambar sweetgum bud spring black background organic pattern pattern Nothing is so beautiful as Spring-- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look like little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. - Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as Spring-- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look like little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. - Gerard Manley Hopkins |