Release by Liberty Hyde Bailey - Poem for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C can be found here)

Poem to accompany the reading,
1 Timothy 6:6-19

Release
Liberty Hyde Bailey

One day
I went
To the fields to rest.

The sun
Hung low
On the rim of the West.

A sparrow
Chirped
As it dropped to its nest.

And my soul
Had found
The boon of its quest.

*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.

Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) was an American horticulturist and botanist who was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.  Bailey is credited with being instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, the nature study movement, parcel post and rural electrification. He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism. (via Wikipedia)