Old Books and Fresh Flowers Perfume – Alkemia

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Fresh neroli orange flowers and heliotrope blossoms pressed between the delicate paper pages of a leather-bound book.
Fresh neroli orange flowers and heliotrope blossoms pressed between the delicate paper pages of a leather-bound book.

And all I love is here : old books, fresh flowers.

My books are tombs where wit and wisdom sleep,

Stored full with treasure of the long ago ;
My tender buds, that dews of springtide steep.

Like shining mirrors of the future show.
The present is so sad ! . . . . this dark to-day

Like skies with thunder charged above us lowers :
Ah ! of the past — the future — speak always.

Tell me of naught but these . old books, fresh
flowers.

-- Graham R. Tomson (Rosamund Marriott Watson)

Art: Vanitas Still Life by Simon Renard de St. André c. 1650

Fresh neroli orange flowers and heliotrope blossoms pressed between the delicate paper pages of a leather-bound book.And all I love is here : old books, fresh flowers.My books are tombs where wit and wisdom sleep,Stored full with treasure of the long ago ;My tender buds, that dews of springtide steep.Like shining mirrors of the future show.The present is so sad ! . . . . this dark to-dayLike skies with thunder charged above us lowers :Ah ! of the past — the future — speak always.Tell me of naught but these . old books, freshflowers.-- Graham R. Tomson (Rosamund Marriott Watson)Art: Vanitas Still Life by Simon Renard de St. André c. 1650