Twas Ever Thus

Grafiti below the bridge on the Norwottuck Rail Trail Bridge in Northampton.... I took this photo when we were out on the Connecticut River on our Moomba.  A sense of peace on the water overwhelms me and the photography on the water just seems to "pop"

"'twas ever thus"

a quote derived from a poem written in 1817 

by Thomas Moore

Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour,  

     I've seen my fondest hopes decay; 

I never lov'd a tree or flower,  

     But 'twas the first to fade away. 

I never nurs'd a dear gazelle,     

  To glad me with its soft black eye, 

But when it came to know me well,      

 And love me, it was sure to die! Now too —

 the joy most like divine      

Of all I ever dreamt or knew, 

To see thee, hear thee, call thee mine, —       

 Oh misery! must I lose that too?

I really like it in black & white