Taking Off With Woolf In 1910

VISIONS AND CONSECRATED JOY

On or about December 1910 human character changed.
-Virginia Woolf in The Modern World: Ten Great Writers, Malcohm Bradbury, Penguin Books, Ringwood, Victoria, 1989, p.15. :lol:


We heard about your leaving, then,(December 1910)
at the age of sixty-five, after twenty-four
years in Haifa. You’d seen Carmel and Akka
joined in light, around the bay,
teeming with ships from all nations,
shining like jewels, a global metropolis
that would have excited Abraham.

And the world did change as you
walked down that Mountain to the steamer
and on to Egypt. Needing a rest, you
took your visions West, to those minarettes
of materialism. With that Dust finally
in its home, You were ready to flood new
regions with that light that was The Call
to change human character forever
with those seeds of Ancient Splendour
and the fresh leaves of Your consecrated joy.

Ron Price
27 October 1995 :mad: