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1 Eleanor Farjeon 2 Sourced: 2.1 Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922) 2.2 Morning Has Broken (1931) 3 External link:

Eleanor Farjeon

(1881 - 1965) English author

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• "It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing."
  • Gypsy and Ginger (1920)

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

• "Romance gathers round an old story like lichen on an old branch. And the story of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard is so old now — some say a year old, some say even two. How can the children be expected to remember?"

• "Every man's life (and ... every woman's life), awaits the hour of blossoming that makes it immortal ... love is a divinity above all accidents, and guards his own with extraordinary obstinacy."

• "No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning."

• "I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them."

• "'In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.' And he bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them."

• "He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest."

• "Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots."

• "Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love."

• "The world never knows, and cannot for the life of it imagine, what this man sees in that maid and that maid in this man. The world cannot think why they fell in love with each other. But they have their reason, their beautiful secret, that never gets told to more than one person; and what they see in each other is what they show to each other; and it is the truth. Only they kept it hidden in their hearts until the time came. And though you and I may never know why this lane is called Shelley's, to us both it will always be the greenest lane in Sussex, because it leads to the special secret I spoke of."

Morning Has Broken (1931)

• Morning has broken,
  Like the first morning,
  Blackbird has spoken
  Like the first bird.
  Praise for the singing!
  Praise for the morning!
  Praise for them springing
  Fresh from the Word!

• Sweet the rain's new fall,
  Sunlit from heaven,
  Like the first dewfall
  On the first grass...

• Mine is the sunlight,
  Mine is the morning,
  Born of the one light
  Eden saw play.
  Praise with elation,
  Praise every morning,
  God's re-creation
  Of the new day!

External link:

• Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard at Project Gutenberg