Vision

Portrait of Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon 1886–1967

I love all things that pass: their briefness is Music that fades on transient silences. Winds, birds, and glittering leaves that flare and fall- They fling delight across the world; they call To rhythmic-flashing limbs that rove and race... A moment in the dawn for Youth's lit face; A moment's passion, closing on the cry- 'O Beauty, born of lovely things that die!'

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