Four hundred years ago today, William Shakespeare passed away.
April is a month that belongs to the Bard, a significant date is the twenty-third.
Seeing as today, April 23rd, is the four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, I was inspired to break out in verse (well, two lines). He was also born in April (possibly on the same date as that on which he died) and was baptized on the 26th.
The next time you take a walk through the woods or alongside a babbling brook, think of Shakespeare’s play ‘As You Like It‘ (Act II, Scene I – The Forest of Arden)
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt
finds tongues in trees
books in the running brooks
sermons in stones
and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Jean Reinhardt 
Lovely tribute!
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Thank you, Jan. 🙂
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I had no idea. Thank you for sharing this.
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You’re welcome Dana. 🙂
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“As You Like It” was the first of Shakespeare’s works we studied, and some of the lines are fresh in the mind 58 years later. Yours, above, is one, and ‘The Seven Ages of Man’ is another 😂
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I read a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays when I was about 10 but when I went to high school the first of his works we studied was ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and some of those lines have stuck in my head, too. 🙂
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If you haven’t seen this stage show, and the opportunity presents, you should see it. I think you would enjoy it. We laughed until it hurt 😀https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_William_Shakespeare_(Abridged)
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Lovely tribute Jean!
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Thanks, Deborah. 🙂
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Jean, what a wonderful post! How perfectly you captured the words of that verse in your images! Swoon!
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Thanks, Ali. I love combining words and images together. 🙂
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Beautiful verse, and these seem personal as you accompany them with your photos.
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It wasn’t until I was older that I realized how much Shakespeare’s writing was influenced by nature.
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I will remember this when I read or hear his words again.
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