Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/03/19

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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 16/3/2017: sunset at 10000 meters
From: peter.cheyne at gmail.com (Peter Cheyne)
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 18:49:57 +0900
 
Nathan, your vision and gifted ken has a magnifying power!

As the Romantic poet-philosopher S. T. Coleridge put it:

The poet in his lone yet genial hour
Gives to his eyes a magnifying power:
Or rather he emancipates his eyes
>From the black shapeless accidents of size?
In unctuous cones of kindling coal,
Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim bole,
His gifted ken can see
Phantoms of sublimity.

('Apologia pro Vita Sua', revised version of 'The Poet's Eye')