Quote of the Day (John Keats, on Life as the ‘Rose’s Hope’)

“Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown;

The reading of an ever-changing tale;

The light uplifting of a maiden's veil;

A pigeon tumbling in clear summer air;

A laughing school-boy, without grief or care,

Riding the springy branches of an elm.”—John Keats (1795-1821), from “Sleep and Poetry,” in Complete Poems, edited by Jack Stillinger (1982)