Liège (B)
When nature disappears from a front garden
“We, O Nature, depart,
Thou survivest us! this,
This, I know, is the law.
Yes! but more than this,
Thou who seest us die
Seest us change while we live;
Seest our dreams, one by one,
Seest our errors depart;
Watchest us, Nature! throughout,
Mild and inscrutably calm.”
(M. Arnold in The youth of man)
Chaudfontaine (B)
New construction for a dark living
Les offres révolutionnaires vont marquer leur temps
A garden full of lines and colours
“The Lord God planted a garden
In the first white days of the world;
And placed there an angel warden,
In a garment of light unfurled.
So near to the peace of heaven,
The hawk might nest with the wren;
For there, in the cool of the even,
God walked with the first of men.”
(D.F. Gurney in God’s garden)
Liège (B)