worlddreamday

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod” – from A Child’s Garden of Verses

Image: illustration by Charles Robinson (1870–1937) to “The Land of Nod”

Today, 25 September, is #WorldDreamDay

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47431/the-land-of-nod

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The Land of Nod
by Robert Louis Stevenson

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.

All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do —
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

The strangest things are there for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the land of Nod.

Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.

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Pen and ink illustration by Charles Robinson to Stevenson’s poem "The Land of Nod". The image is tall and thin; the right side is dominated by a black crag (or possibly a strange tree-trunk), in front of which, in the bottom right-hand corner, stand two fantastical bird-like creatures with scruffy feathers and outsized, beaked heads. Although not overtly threatening or frightening, they are unsettling in their appearance. Behind them, a small child, head bowed, toils up-slope with the aid of a staff. Strange, cloudy outcrops and buildings are in the background. In the top left-hand corner, a giant, long-nosed face peers over the top of the cliff.

Caption: "Up the mountain sides of dreams"

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Joseph Cowan Cross House

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/joseph-cowan-cross-house-justin-farrimond.html

And there he stands, looking down Westgate Road, the mighty Joseph Cowan.
What would the modern political scene make of such a man?
Behind him, Cross House, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Sorry about the seagull Joe.

#PhotoOfTheDay #WorldDreamDay #Photography #ArtPrint #Dreamscape #Art #PhotographyIsArt #Politics

Colour adjusted photograph showing a statue of a politician chap, with a seagull on his head.

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