The Flower

All's in this flower ...
Times, seasons, losses, all the fruits of woe,
Beauty's fragility, and death's bare gain,
Pluck'd in passing by, five minutes ago.

All's in this flower, the war of life and death,
God's character and purpose written down,
The force of love, the proof and power of faith
All's here, and all unknown.

~ Frank Kendon ~

(The Time Piece)

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Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon (1893 - December 28, 1959) was an English writer, poet and academic. He was also an illustrator, and journalist.

He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1948. He was a published poet in the 1920s and later a writer of stories and a novel. From 1935 to 1954 he worked for Cambridge University Press. At the beginning of World War II he was a campaigning pacifist. Kendon had a son named Adam Kendon, born 1934 in London.

After the war, he undertook the translations of the Psalms in the New English Bible, but died before he could complete the work.

Works

* Poems by Four Authors (1923) with J. R. Ackerley, A. Y. Campbell, and Edward Davison
* Poems and Sonnets (1924)
* Mural paintings in English churches during the Middle Ages: an introductory essay on the folk influence in religious art (Bodley Head 1923)
* Arguments & Emblems (1925)
* A Life and Death of Judas Iscariot (Bodley Head 1926))
* The Small Years (1930) autobiography
* The Adventure of Poetry (1932)
* Tristram (1934) poem
* The Cherry Minder (1935) poems
* The Flawless Stone (1942) poem
* The Time Piece (1945) poem
* Each Silver Fly
* The Farmers Friend
* Cage & Wing (1947) poem
* Martin Makesure (1950) novel
* Jacob & Thomas: Darkness (1950)
* Thirty Six Psalms, an English Version Cambridge University Press, 1963

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kendon