water towers Archives - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

The tower of the water

"Des Menschen Seele
Gleicht dem Wasser:
Vom Himmel kommt es,
Zum Himmel steigt es,
Und wieder nieder
Zur Erde muß es,
Ewig wechselnd."

(J.W. von Goethe in Gesang der Geister über den Wassern)
Amay-Ampsin (B)

“You took the silver, you took the gold
You left me standing out in the cold …”

(Bob Dylan in Million Miles)
Liège-Bressoux (B)

“If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther I should see,
To where the grown-up river slips
Into the sea among the ships ….”

(R. Stevenson in A children’s garden of verses)
Liège-Chênée (B)

“There will be quiet open spaces,
and shady towers sweet with bells,
and quiet folks with quiet faces,
walking among these miracles.”

(H. Wolfe in The dream-city)
Chênée (B)

At the Sambre in Charleroi (B)