Saga of the Oak

Everything is part of me,

Firmament and moving sea;

I of all that is am part,

Stone and star and human heart.

Primal Cause etern, self-wrought,

Majesty transcending thought.

-William H. Venable

Carl Gustav Carus (1789–1869), Memory of a Wooded Island in the Baltic Sea (Oak trees by the Sea) (1834-35), oil on canvas, 117.5 x 162.5 cm, Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Wikimedia Commons.