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Segovia and Madrid

Terracotta dreams alight in rising Roman aqueducts slipping in twilight hours of the night where mysterious Spanish memories are plucked; a momentary plunge with Hercules standing muscle-bound from which olden images are hung as winds rise without a sound; a flare in dance upon the castle floors to pray a prayer aloud beyond grand cathedral doors holding visions authentic to each crowd; slip in and out the corridors of legacy Segovia and Madrid, the old Alcazar, where history lay in wait splendidly and time marches on, near and far; these are mere images that remain to tell a story old yet true by which history is framed a place, a legend, a story not new; let it rise, let it stay mysteries laid in the past while awe and beauty grace the day and visions and dreams race fast.

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Date: 7/21/2019 12:55:00 AM
DM Babbit, With a flourish of pen I write upon the gifted page. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand-- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep--while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? -E.A. Poe
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