Saturday, 7 May 2016

Just a thought: Cheers to 'Eyes' !

That was a present, and will always be 'present'from 'Eyes'. So....
(...)
 
O for a draught of vintage! that hath been 
  Cool'd a long age in the deep-delvèd earth, 
Tasting of Flora and the country-green, 
  Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth! 
O for a beaker full of the warm South!  15
  Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, 
    With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, 
          And purple-stainèd mouth; 
  That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, 
    And with thee fade away into the forest dim:  20
 
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget 
  What thou among the leaves hast never known, 
The weariness, the fever, and the fret 
  Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; 
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs,  25
  Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; 
    Where but to think is to be full of sorrow 
          And leaden-eyed despairs; 
  Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, 
    Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.  30
(...) John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
    











































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2 comments:

  1. Merci Eyes!
    If only I had a bit of luck as it was planned I could have seen both Vesselina K and Anja H in Paris! almost 'reunited' like in your pict !!!

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