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Picture
22 May 2016
Rhodora
Rhododendron canadense
Walden-Parke Preserve
Bangor, Maine

A deciduous flowering shrub that is native to this area and thrives in the moist, acidic soils of bogs, swamps, and clearings in woodlands. 

The Rhodora
On being asked, whence is the flower.

In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
The purple petals fallen in the pool
Made the black water with their beauty gay;
Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,
And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for Being;
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never thought to ask; I never knew;
But in my simple ignorance suppose
The self-same power that brought me there, brought you.
                 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bangor Land Trust

P.O. Box 288
9 Central St, #201
Bangor, ME 04401
207-942-1010
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