What a striking opposition between the main body of the poem and the last two sentences! Our quest is an adventure fraught with challenges and pitfalls, and we are too often the helpless and powerless witnesses of ambition, arrogance and ills. Aspiring to peace in the solitude of one own's heart, the solution sought is out of the ordinary: inner peace is fundamental and the harp is the instrument that best connects men with god in the silence of a retreat.

I have liked the way the poem follows the composition of the image, also focusing on tiny details like: "a step sliding over the leaf".

A great text following the form and content of a powerful image.

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Sushama Karnik

This is is one of those striking impacts of Ross's paintings.

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Tighe O'Donoghue Ross

POWERFUL memories of a lost world...