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{…Winter Is Coming…}

BRIGHT star, would I were as stedfast as though art–
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’d human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors–
No–yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d on my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever–or else swoon to death.

John Keats

Ed un sottofondo dei Notturni di Chopin, sotto le fronde di un salice appena mosso dal vento al crepuscolo.
La luna sorge da dietro una collina, l’acqua sciaborda non troppo lontano. Assolutamente perfetto.