photography, poetry

how to dress the misery in fit magnificence

Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull catalogue of common things.
Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine –
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-personed Lamia melt into a shade.

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music

little miss sorrow

Discovered a song I’d never heard before on the Herman’s Hermits record I bought t’other day. Little Miss Sorrow. Cyclically, hauntingly lovely.

Sing to me, bring to me,
Every sweet thing to me, sunshine.
Run away, laugh and play,
Talk away hours with me.
Toy bells, pretty tunes,
Sun and moon shine through my window.
Magic sound, turn around,
Spinning down onto me.
Oh little miss sorrow,
Oh child of tomorrow,
Won’t you follow me?

That should be enough to make you want to find/listen/love it.
(Below…little miss sorrow?)

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