This vast theatric structure wound

This blip is of Malham Tarn, looking very 'broody' in the early afternoon, winter light.

Spent a lovely day wandering around the Malham area, visiting pubs in Arncliffe and Litton along the way :-)

The Tarn sits above Malham Cove, and I'm obviously reminded of Wordsworth's 1819 poem of the same name:


MALHAM COVE

Was the aim frustrated by force or guile,
When giants scooped from out the rocky ground,
Tier under tier, this semicirque profound?
(Giants the same who built in Erin's isle
That Causeway with incomparable toil!)
Oh, had this vast theatric structure wound
With finished sweep into a perfect round,
No mightier work had gained the plausive smile
Of all-beholding Phoebus! But, alas,
Vain earth! false world! Foundations must be laid
In Heaven; for, 'mid the wreck of IS and WAS,
Things incomplete and purposes betrayed
Make sadder transits o'er thought's optic glass
Than noblest objects utterly decayed.