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Grazing cattle on a pasture near Hrad nad Moravici in Czech Silesia: photo by Multimotyl, 2010
You look like one
Whom time has surprised,
Though the perfect sense
Of what is final,
The inmost view
From behind the past,
Beyond the long slope,
The frost and tall grass,
Is not new to you:
You’ve played along
With it once or twice
On your violio.
Paul Violi (1944-2011): Pastorale, from Overnight, 2007