Einbandgalerie

„The burden of bright colours. Thou shalt see
    Gold tarnished, and the grey above the green;
And as the thing thou seest thy face shall be,
    And no more as the thing beforetime seen.
    And thou shalt say of mercy ‘It hath been,’
And living, watch the old lips and loves expire,
    And talking, tears shall take thy breath between;
This is the end of every man’s desire.“

Algernon Charles Swinburne: „A Ballad of Burdens”