Happy Valentine's Day.
'Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse — and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness —
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.'
Illustration for Quatrain 11, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by The Folio Society, 2009. Watercolour.
'Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse — and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness —
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.'
Illustration for Quatrain 11, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by The Folio Society, 2009. Watercolour.
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Dulac is one of my most favourites, too, hence:
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