Posts in Category: Culture of Industry
Last work, first green
“Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
(R. Frost in Nothing gold can stay)
Liège (B)
The 3 on the roof with view into the distance
“Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl”
(Bob Dylan in All along the watchtower)
Malmedy (B)
Overwhelming power
“Without delay, without haste
We would build the beginning and the end of this street.
We build the meaning:
A Church for all
And a job for each
Each man to his work.”
(T.S. Eliot in The Rock)
Liège (B)
Our thrones decay
“Still flows the ancient fount sublime; —
But, ah, for my heart, shed tears, shed tears;
Not it, but love, has scorn of time,
It turns to dust beneath the years.”
(G.W. Russell from Homeward: Songs by the Way)
Heusden-Zolder (B)
A tower in the woods
“Zum Sehen geboren,
Zum Schauen bestellt,
Dem Turme geschworen
Gefällt mir die Welt.
Ich blick’ in die Ferne,
Ich seh’ in der Näh’
Den Mond und die Sterne,
Den Wald und das Reh.”
(J.W. von Goethe in Faust, in Der Tragödie zweiter Teil (Part II), Act V
Dour (B)