through the green fuse drives the flower

A belated happy birthday to the Welsh bard, Dylan Thomas, born to David and Florence Thomas on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, Wales. Hey, what's the weather in Swansea? If you hurry, you still might make the Dylan Thomas festival.

The fierce that thrown the preen ruse hives the power
Hives my preen page; that flouts the routes of bees
Is my describer.
And I am done to spell the cricket home
My wreath is rent by this sane flinty river.

And a birthday salute from the Dickinsonian oracle:

My Heart ran so to thee
It would not wait for me
And I affronted grew
And drew away
For whatsoe'er my pace
He first achieve thy Face -
How general a Grace
Allotted two -
(E. Dickinson, from 1331)