Hedges have grown
over palace and court.
A forgotten era
of fountains and chandeliers
behind facades,
serenades and strings,
the colours of the mauves.
The guides mutter
through sandalwood halls
Of the Wishing Table
in the libraries
of princes past.
(WG Sebald:”Across the Land and Water”, selected poems 1964-2001, trans Iain Galbraith)
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