#AdventCalendar – Day 7: The Song of Shadows

December 7, 2022

Sweep thy faint strings, Musician,
With thy long lean hand;
Downward the starry tapers burn,
Sinks soft the waning sand;
The old hound whimpers couched in sleep,
The embers smoulder low;
Across the walls the shadows
Come, and go.
Sweep softly thy strings, Musician,
The minutes mount to hours;
Frost on the windless casement weaves
A labyrinth of flowers;
Ghosts linger in the darkening air,
Hearken at the open door;
Music hath called them, dreaming,
Home once more.

Walter John de la Mare – The Song of Shadows

note to self

The Taiwan Preliminary Sketchbook – Part 1: Taipei

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books and literature

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architecture, engineering and construction

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