２０００年３月２７日（月）

＜　ホトケノザ　＞

庭にいっぱいホトケノザがはびこっている。
お花が咲くのは草だって何だって抜かずにおいとくから、次々咲く。
私の好きなCicely の Flower Fairies を思い出した。

" THE SONG OF THE DEAD-NETTLE FAIRY "

Through sun and rain, and country lane,

The field, the road,are my abode.

Though leaf and bud be splashed with mud,

Who cares? Not I ! __ I see the sky,

The kindly sun, the wayside fun

Of trampling folk who smoke and joke,

The bairns who heed my dusty weed

(No sting have I to make them cry),

And truth to tell,they love me well.

My brothers, White,andYellow bright,

Are finer chaps than I, perhaps;

Who cares? Not I ! So now good-bye.

- Cicely M.Barker'