Meanwhile ...

at Fennel Central .... things have been quiet on this dull wettish bank holiday. I'm becoming a fennel bore ... sorry.

Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt
- Samuel Taylor Colerdige

When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt-
A Flight of Hopes for ever on the wing
But made Tranquillity a conscious Thing—
And wheeling round and round in sportive coil
Fann'd the calm air upon the brow of Toil—