Copsa Mica. Passing clouds.
Photographs by Oleg Tishkovets.
Copsa Mica 2004
February 2014

To one who has been long in city pent,
by John Keats (1795 – 1821) in volume Poems (1817)

“To one who has been long in city pent,
’Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven,- to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Who is more happy, when, with hearts content,
Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair
Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair
And gentle tale of love and languishment?
Returning home at evening, with an ear
Catching the notes of Philomel,- an eye
Watching the sailing cloudlet’s bright career,
He mourns that day so soon has glided by:
E’en like the passage of an angel’s tear
That falls through the clear ether silently. ”