Vestigia

Silk manipulated and quilted with beads, and netting over all, with cord and quilted border. This wall hanging illustrates the beauty of the poem by Bliss Carmen:

I took a day to search for God,

And found Him not. But as I trod

By rocky ledge, through woods untamed,

Just where one scarlet lily flamed,

I saw His footprint in the sod.

  

Then suddenly, all unaware,

Far off in the deep shadows, where

A solitary hermit thrush

Sang through the holy twilight hush-

I heard his voice upon the air.

 

And even as I marveled how

God gives us heaven here and now,

In a stir of wind that hardly shook

The poplar leaves beside the brook-

His hand was light upon my brow.

 

At last with evening as I turned

Homeward, and thought what I had learned

And all that there was still to probe-

I caught the glory of His robe

Where the last fires of sunset burned.

 

Back to the world with quickening start

I looked and longed for any part

In making saving Beauty be….

And from that kindling ecstasy

I knew God dwelt within my heart.

Portfolio Photo: Vestigia by Hellen Beamish
Size: 
13.5" by 16.5"