In today’s Wall Street Journal I review Elyssa East’s Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574566772944605580.html. Among her subjects is the New England painter Marsden Hartley, who after years of expatriation in Europe and New York City came home to do his best work. He wrote a poem about it:
Return of the Native
Rock, juniper, and wind,
and a seagull sitting still—
all these of one mind.
He who finds will
to come home
will surely find old faith
made new again,
and lavish welcome.
Old things breaketh
new, when heart and soul
lose no whit of old refrain;
it is a smiling festival
when rock, juniper, and wind
are of one mind;
a seagull signs the bond—makes what was broken, whole.
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