A Lughnasadh blessing

Today's feast of Lughnasadh is celebrated by many. It marks the beginning of the harvest season, a time for a blessing such as:

May your harvest be bountiful and

sustain you through the cold winter months ahead. 

May the love of friends and family always be with you.

According  to the Minnesota Weather Guide calendar, "In southern and western Minnesota, potato farmers have begun  the harvest and fields of sunflowers are in full bloom." In our area, some farmers have begun to harvest small grains and others their second cutting of hay.

bales of hay await transport

Photo by J. Harrington

In Harvest

By Sophie Jewett

Mown meadows skirt the standing wheat;

I linger, for the hay is sweet,

New-cut and curing in the sun.

Like furrows, straight, the windrows run,

Fallen, gallant ranks that tossed and bent

When, yesterday, the west wind went

A-rioting through grass and grain.

To-day no least breath stirs the plain;

Only the hot air, quivering, yields

Illusive motion to the fields

Where not the slenderest tassel swings.

Across the wheat flash sky-blue wings;

A goldfinch dangles from a tall,

Full-flowered yellow mullein; all

The world seems turning blue and gold.

Unstartled, since, even from of old,

Beauty has brought keen sense of her,

I feel the withering grasses stir;

Along the edges of the wheat,

I hear the rustle of her feet:

And yet I know the whole sea lies,

And half the earth, between our eyes.

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