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袁可殷 / -Yuen Ho Yan-Vanessas

​​​Artist Statement:

 

 



I Sit and Think by J. R. R. Tolkien

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;


Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.


I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall never see.


For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.


I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.


But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before, 

I listen for returning feet

And voices at the door.



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