the finding of shining pebbles

Sometimes I find things that I feel I need to keep close, for I have found in them an everlasting meaning that is difficult to put into words (even if they are themselves words). These things simply shine forth, bringing a light into what would otherwise be a routine, and therefore extremely dim, existence. Perhaps their significance can only be framed within the determined instant in which I first got to know them, and perhaps my attempt to remember completely how their beauty astonished me is completely vacuous. Today, however, I thought it was worth to place two of them in this space.

Blogging = recollecting instants.

1.

Moonrise, Cape Sounion, Greece
image credit: Anthony Ayiomamitis

2.
To-night

By Louise Chandler Moulton

BEND low, O dusky Night,
And give my spirit rest.
Hold me to your deep breast,
And put old cares to flight.
Give back the lost delight
That once my soul possest,
When Love was loveliest.
Bend low, O dusky Night!

Enfold me in your arms—
The sole embrace I crave
Until the embracing grave
Shield me from life’s alarms.
I dare your subtlest charms;
Your deepest spell I brave,—
O, strong to slay or save,
Enfold me in your arms!


also worth remembering: Irgendwo in Afrika
escucho: Anjo da Guarda, Tribalistas / Tribalistas