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Yarmouth, ME
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Title
Lacking Mistress And Master
Artist
Elizabeth Dow
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Lovely old abandoned home on the Highland Road in Brunswick Maine. The title for this photo I borrowed from my favorite poet Robert Frost. The complete poem is this:
�A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master,
With doors that none but the wind ever closes,
Its floor all littered with glass and with plaster;
It stands in a garden of old-fashioned roses.
I pass by that way in the gloaming with Mary;
'I wonder,' I say, 'who the owner of those is.'
'Oh, no one you know,' she answers me airy,
'But one we must ask if we want any roses.'
So we must join hands in the dew coming coldly
There in the hush of the wood that reposes,
And turn and go up to the open door boldly,
And knock to the echoes as beggars for roses.
'Pray, are you within there, Mistress Who-were-you?'
'Tis Mary that speaks and our errand discloses.
'Pray, are you within there? Bestir you, bestir you!
'Tis summer again; there's two come for roses.
'A word with you, that of the singer recalling--
Old Herrick: a saying that every maid knows is
A flower unplucked is but left to the falling,
And nothing is gained by not gathering roses.'
We do not loosen our hands' intertwining
(Not caring so very much what she supposes),
There when she comes on us mistily shining
And grants us by silence the boon of her roses.
― Robert Frost
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March 1st, 2014
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Brunswick, ME - United States
Have you been by here lately? They're completely restoring it. It was magnificent when it was in disrepair, like you captured here, but I'm glad someone is saving it and not letting it disappear completely.
Elizabeth Dow replied:
HI Benjamin, I did see that someone was restoring it. I LOVE this home and I am so happy that someone is restoring it. I must go by soon and see what they have done.
Regina, SK - Canada
Love the title and great image, Elizabeth! l/f
Elizabeth Dow replied:
Thank you Dorothy! Doing this in a filtered black and white was really out of my comfort zone. I do like how it came out though. I really appreciate your comments!
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