Clair de Lune - Sold

Your soul is like a landscape fantasy,
Where masks and Bergamasks, in charming wise,
Strum lutes and dance, just a bit sad to be
Hidden beneath their fanciful disguise.

Singing in minor mode of life's largesse
And all-victorious love, they yet seem quite
Reluctant to believe their happiness,
And their song mingles with the pale moonlight,

The calm, pale moonlight, whose sad beauty, beaming,
Sets the birds softly dreaming in the trees,
And makes the marbled fountains, gushing, streaming--
Slender jet-fountains--sob their ecstasies.

-- Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Debussy's musical depiction of Verlaine's Clair de Lune is a wonderful masterpiece and it came to my mind as I was making this piece. Thought I'd share the poem here cos it's simply too beautiful not to share.... Pale beige roses, vintage-print rose tenshas & blush faceted drops ~
Drop is abt 4.5 cm.