Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare

Sonnet 104

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,

For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,

Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold

Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,

Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd

In process of the seasons have I seen,

Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,

Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

Ah, yet doth beauty, like a dial hand,

Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd,

So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,

Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceiv'd;

For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred:

Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.

Kingston Greenways Earth Day Cleanup

Join Kingston Greenways Association for their Earth Day Cleanup on Saturday, April 23, 2016, from 2 to 4 pm. This year KGA will tidy up the areas adjacent to Railroad and Greenwood Avenues, Division Street, Mapleton Road and Ridge Road in Kingston. In addition to the inevitable tossed and blown litter, KGA will be removing some larger trash that is not only unsightly but also could pose hazards to wildlife.

Coming from US 1, head west towards Kingston on Ridge Road (Doubletree Hotel is on the corner of this intersections), and take the first left on Railroad Avenue. From Route 27, turn onto Heathcote Road and go a quarter mile to just beyond the intersection of Heathcote, Ridge and Division, then turn right on Railroad Avenue. Parking for this volunteer event is along Railroad Avenue off Ridge Road. Please wear work boots and bring sturdy gloves. Grabbers and garbage bags will be provided. For more information, please call 609-683-0483.

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There Is Only One Jordan's

As many of our readers know, we are big fans of Jordan's Stationery & Gifts in the Princeton Shopping Center—and of its longtime owner Lewis Wildman and wonderful staff. As you may also know by now, the new management of the shopping center has declined to renew Jordan's lease. Jordan's has been a Princeton institution for nearly 35 years. The store will close at the end of June. A Princeton resident sent a letter to the editor of Town Topics this week that sums up the feelings of so many people in our area. Click here to read the letter.

National Poetry Month

Who Has Seen the Wind?
by Christina Rossetti

Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you.

But when the leaves hang trembling,

The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I.

But when the trees bow down their heads,

The wind is passing by.

                                                         Photo: Valentina Cinelli

National Poetry Month

Poetry

I, too, dislike it.

Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in

it, after all, a place for the genuine.

— Marianne Moore