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A weaver sat one day at his loom,Among the colors bright,
With the pattern for his copying
Hung fair and plain in sight.
But the weaver’s thoughts were wandering
Away on a distant track,
As he threw the shuttle in his hand
Wearily forward and back.
And he turned his dim eyes to the ground,
And his tears fell on the woof,
For his thoughts, alas! were not with his home,
Nor the wife beneath its roof.
When her voice recalled him suddenly
To himself, as she sadly said:
“Ah! woe is me! for your work is spoiled,
And what will we do for bread?”
And then the weaver looked and saw
His work must be undone;
For the threads were wrong, and the colors dimmed
Where the bitter tears had run.
“Alack, alack!” said the weaver,
“And this had all been right
If I had not looked at my work, but kept
The pattern in my sight!”
Ah! sad it was for the weaver,
And sad for his luckless wife;
And sad it will be for us if we say,
At the end of our task in life,
The colors that we had to weave
Were bright in our early years;
But we wove the tissue wrong, and stained
The woof with bitter tears.
We wove a web of doubt and fear—
Not faith, and hope and love,
Because we looked at our work, and not
At our Pattern up above. —Phoebe Cary
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July 31, 2021 at 8:33 am
Thankyou for the poem,it’s beautiful
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July 31, 2021 at 8:35 am
I thought so too. My wife is a quilter, so I’ve seen up close and personally the value of keeping your eye on the pattern.
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July 31, 2021 at 8:39 am
😁 Your wife must be a very patient lady . And I tried it but it’s just not for me, I just couldn’t get a thing right,
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July 31, 2021 at 8:41 am
Quilting will definitely cure you of perfectionism! Every quilt ends up being unique because it’s never completed perfectly. You’re right: it also takes *a lot* of patience.
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July 31, 2021 at 8:45 am
That’s good to know about quilting, thanks for informing me. 😁😁
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