1 <br />Times in the morning early <br />when it rained and the long gray <br />buildings came forward from darkness <br />offering their windows for light. <br /> <br />2 <br />Evenings out there on the plains <br />when sunset donated farms <br />that yearned so far to the west that the world <br />centered there and bowed down. <br /> <br />3 <br />A teacher at a country school <br />walking home past a great marsh <br />where ducks came gliding in -- <br />she saw the boy out hunting and waved. <br /> <br />4 <br />Silence on a hill where the path ended <br />and then the forest below <br />moving in one long whisper <br />as evening touched the leaves. <br /> <br />5 <br />Shelter in winter that day -- <br />a storm coming, but in the lee <br />of an island in a cover with friends -- <br />oh, little bright cup of sun.<br /><br />Mary Oliver<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/some-things-the-world-gave/
