
“…And if the tender plants are stripp’d
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care’s dismay,
How shall the summer arise in joy,…”
(W. Blake in The schoolboy)
Ohey (B)
"Picture and text are showing the transitory character of reality"
“I wandered through a house of many rooms.
It grew darker and darker,
Until, at last, I could only find my way
By passing my fingers along the wall.
Suddenly my hand shot through an open window,
And the thorn of a rose I could not see
Pricked it so sharply
That I cried aloud.”
(A. Lowell, no title, in Pictures of the Floating World)
Eschweiler (D)