“Where is beauty?
Gone, gone:
The cold winds have taken it
With their faint moan;
The white stars have shaken it,
Trembling down,
Into the pathless deeps of the sea.
Gone, gone
Is beauty from me.”

(Walter De la Mare in The song of the secret)
Orp-Jauche (B)

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“Light, oh where is the light?
Kindle it with the burning fire of desire!
There is the lamp but never a flicker of a flame –
is such thy fate, my heart? “

( Rabindranath Tagore in Gitanjali no. 27)
Seraing (B)

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“Light the lamps up, lamplighter,
The people are in the street
Without a light
They have no sight,
And where will they plant their feet?
Some will tread in the gutter
And some in the mud, oh dear!
Light the lamps up, lamplighter,
Because the night is here.”

(E. Farjeon, no title)
Verviers (B)

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“Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’
I’ll burn that bridge before you can cross
Heart burnin’, still yearnin’
They’ll be no mercy for you once you’ve lost“

(Bob Dylan in Aint’t Talkin’)
Liège (B)

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