He wrote:
Ciao, amici
Here is a photo for tonight's summer solstice at 23:31; I've included an excerpt from Seamus Heaney's solstice poem, "A dream of Solstice".
It refers to the winter solstice, but the sun stands still at both.
I love Heaney's use of the quote from Dante too. I do remember most of my dreams but there are times when I only remember the feeling, as does Dante's dreamer.
About the photo
This was the scene that greeted us as we returned from our first post-pandemic trip to visit our grandson and family in Wisconsin.
The mountains, the clouds, the drama in the sky really said to us 'welcome home.' The photo reflects not just the physical beauty of the landscape, but also our turbulent feelings after not seeing our daughter and her family for so long, like all of us separated from family by the pandemic.
Ciao,
Jim
Photo details:
"Overboiling clouds", 15 June '21, 19:13
Canon Mark III EOS 5d, Canon EF28mm f/1.8 USM
1/80", f/4.5, ISO 100
Mount Chocorua under a dark sky, looking north from Page Hill
Excerpt
The Irish Times, 21 Dec 1999
A Dream of Solstice
by Seamus Heaney
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/a-dream-of-solstice-1.263283
Qual è colüi che sognando vede,
che dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa
rimane,
e l'altro a la mente non riede,
cotal son io...
Dante, Paradiso, Canto xxxiii
[Just as the dreamer, after he awakens,
still stirred by feelings that the dream evoked,
cannot bring the rest of it to mind,
such am I…]
And as in illo tempore [in that time] people marked
The king's gold dagger when he plunged it in
To the hilt in unsown ground, to start the work
Of the world again, to speed the plough
And plant the riddled grain, we watch through murk
And overboiling cloud for the milted glow
Of sunrise, for an eastern dazzle
To send first light like share-shine in a furrow
Steadily deeper, farther available,
Creeping along the floor of the passage grave
To backstone and capstone, to hold its candle
Inside the cosmic hill…
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