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Surprised ~ Akun Eagle Owl,
Dubois, Alphonse, 1905. #OwlishMonday
Joyous Summer, Pleasant it Was When the Woods were Green, Philip Calderon, 1882.
Collection of various shells. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Oliver Goldsmith, 1820.
‘“Will you walk a little faster?”
said a whiting to a snail.
“There’s a porpoise close behind us,
and he’s treading on my tail.’ Carroll’s The Mock Turtle’s Song. Illustration ~ John Tenniel #BookWormSat
‘O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.’ The Stolen Child, Yeats. 🖼 Rackham #BookWormSat
A Roman fresco from a fullonica - a dyer's shop in Pompeii. One man is brushing wool. The man under the cage is fabric whitening. The owl on the cage represents Athena who was a protector of the lanaiuoli - companies of wool merchants. #OwlishMonday 🦉