The Ruins Of Time

Soundtrack: "Farewell To The Past" - Ludovico Einaudi

"Time passes by, direction unknown..."

(Sum 41) 

 

 

 

 

"O Time! the beautifier of the dead,
Adorner of the ruin, comforter
And only healer when the heart hath bled

Time! the corrector where our judgments err,
The test of truth, love, sole philosopher,
For all besides are sophists, from thy thrift
Which never loses though it doth defer

Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift
My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift".

(Lord Byron)

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I saw the musty shingles of my house,
raw wood and fixed once, now a wash of moss
eroded by the ruin of age
furning all fair and green things into waste.
I climbed the pasture. I saw the dim sun drink
the ice just thawing from the boldered fallow,
woods crowd the foothills, sieze last summer's field,
and higher up, the sickly cattle bellow.
I went into my house. I saw how dust
and ravel had devoured its furnishing;
even my cane was withered and more bent,
even my sword was coffined up in rust
there was no hilt left for the hand to try.
Everything ached, and told me I must die"

(Robert Rowell) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"A land without ruins, is a land without memories".

(Abram Joseph Ryan)

Tempo: 20 Luglio 2011

Luogo: Custoza