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View Of Rose Cottage from Dog Lane
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One of my favourite occupations is to run my fingers\nover a shelf of books in my library and pull out a book, open its pages at\nrandom and read. As I read poetry every day, it is often a book of poetry I\nopen. I have quite a few anthologies and one of them is a green and gold tooled\ncopy of Poems of Today published in 1924. It contains many gems from poets as\ndiverse as Walter-de-la-mare to Padraic Colum. I opened it at a poem that began,\u201d\nI come in the little things saith The Lord.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What, isn\u2019t that Elizabeth Goudge speaking? Going back\nto the top of the page I see the poem is titled\u201d Immanence\u201d not a work or a\nword I know. I looked up the definition to find that it means \u201cthe theory that\nthe divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world. That the\nspiritual world permeates the mundane. The author of the poem was one Evelyn\nUnderhill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immediately I was on the road to The Highlands, and the\nstart of Elizabeth\u2019s book \u201cThe Middle Window.\u201d It is written in three \u201cbooks\u201d\nwith a Prologue. Each section starts with a relevant quote. The Prologue\u2019s\nentitled The Search has this; \u201cTo those who cry out against romance I would say\n\u2013 You yourself are romance. You are the lost prince herding obscurely amongst\nthe swine. The romance of your spirit is the most wonderful of stories.\u201d Attributed\nto A. E. a pen name of Evelyn Underhill, a writer and theologian that Elizabeth\nmuch admired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI come in little things,
\nSaith The Lord:
\nYeah! On the glancing wings,
\nof eager birds, the softly pattering feet
\nof furred and gentle beasts, I come to meet
\nYour hard and wayward heart\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could picture Elizabeth and Cousin Mary and Edith\ngazing reverently at The Little Things in a house deep in the countryside,\nwhich was just on the cusp of Autumn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what I love about a Book by Elizabeth Goudge, her writing takes you and shows you not only what she has seen, but what others have seen before her. It is always a journey worth taking. As the nights begin to draw in, burrow into a Goudge novel and be taken somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Silver Writing Desk From Elizabeth Goudge’s Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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