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"There gardens surround a palace all of glass;
There Firebirds sing by night
And peck at golden fruit" (Polonsky)

Stravinsky's "Firebird" premiered #OTD 1910 in Paris

🎨 Leon Bakst

"But have a care
To make short stay
Where wields his sway,
The Great Lord Fish" (Walter de la Mare)

... or how to disenchant a fish-tailed lass cursed by a carless wizard in the realm of the Lord Fish

#WyrdWednesday #darkgreenweek

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

Peter Pan's father J. M. Barrie died #OTD 1937

🎨 Arthur Rackham (1906)

"Even more he liked an old German song of Johannes Jeep about the clear sea and the voices of sirens, sweet murderers of men, which boggled Bloom a bit:

Von der Sirenen Listigkeit
Tun die Poeten dichten*" (Joyce "Ulysses")

🎨 Warwick Goble

#Bloomsday #darkgreenweek

@Kerria @bjorn_stjerne Thank you!

🎨 Imao Keinen

@VeraNijveld Really glad to hear that, dear Vera! And I do love curlews!

"O, curlew, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the waters in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
Passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair
That was shaken out over my breast:
There is enough evil in the crying of wind." (Yeats)

#ofdarkandmacabre #darkgreenweek

"a flash of lightning:
into the gloom
goes the heron's cry." (Basho)

Japanese painter Maruyama Ōkyo was born #OTD 1733

🎨 "Heron on a Willow Branch" (cropped, c 1770)

#SwampSunday

"...the raven is Satan’s own bird; so also is the water wagtail, yet beware of killing it, for it has three drops of the devil’s blood in its little body, and ill-luck ever goes with it, and follows it" quoth Lady Wilde in "Ancient Legends of Ireland" (1887)

#SuperstitionSat

“He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fountain,
When our need was the sorest.
The font reappearing
From the raindrops shall borrow,
But to us comes no cheering,
To Duncan no morrow!" (Scott "Coronach")

#folklorethursday #dontgointothewoods