The dream but summons to adventure
© 2005
BASID #673
Beth Ames Swartz
The dream but summons to adventure
acrylic, paste and holographic film on canvas
60" x 60" (1.52m x 1.52m)
2005
| Words "hidden" behind central image |
Twenty-and-eight the phases of the moon,
The full and the moon's dark and all the crescents,
Twenty-and-eight, and yet but six-and-twenty
The cradles that a man must needs be rocked in:
For there's no human life at the full or the dark.
From the first crescent to the half, the dream
But summons to adventure and the man
Is always happy like a bird or a beast;
But while the moon is rounding towards the full
He follows whatever whim's most difficult |
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). The Wild Swans at Coole. 1919: from 35. The Phases of the Moon, lines 33-42. |
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