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Family Portrait, Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island, Canada: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 24 January 2014
Stand still, and I will read to thee
A Lecture, Love, in loves philosophy.
These three houres that we have spent,
Walking here, Two shadowes went
Along with us, which we our selves produc'd;
But, now the Sunne is just above our head,
We doe those shadowes tread;
And to brave clearnesse all things are reduc'd.
So whilst our infant loves did grow,
Disguises did, and shadowes, flow,
From us, and our cares; but, now 'tis not so.
That love hath not attain'd the high'st degree,
Which is still diligent lest others see.
Except our loves at this noone stay,
We shall new shadowes make the other way.
As the first were made to blinde
Others; these which come behinde
Will worke upon our selves, and blind our eyes.
If our loves faint, and westwardly decline;
To me thou, falsely, thine,
And I to thee mine actions shall disguise.
The morning shadowes weare away,
But these grow longer all the day,
But oh, loves day is short, if love decay.
Love is a growing, or full constant light;
And his first minute, after noone, is night.
John Donne (1572-1631): A Lecture upon the Shadow, from Songs and Sonets (1633)
Stairway #2. Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island, Canada: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 15 October 2009
Stairway #1. Crane Estate, Ipswich, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 14 October 2012
Dune Shadow Sunset Self Portrait: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 23 September 2010
Where Fantasy Is Fact: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 3 April 2011
This Ocean Shoreline (Rockport, Massachusetts): photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 24 February 2013
Modern Architecture with Shadow: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 12 May 2013
In the Bramble. Dogtown, Gloucester, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 6 January 2013
In the Bramble #3. Dogtown, Gloucester, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 7 February 2013
In the Bramble #6. Dogtown, Gloucester, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 27 February 2013
Black Hole (and) Sun. Horn Pond, Woburn, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 25 November 2009
Nelson Island #5 -- Entrance. Rowley, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 15 January 2014
Nelson Island #16, Rowley, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 15 January 2014
Great Marsh in Winter #11, Rowley, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 22 January 2014