This is my latest piece of temporary art, as painted on our garden wall:
The phrase ‘TEN SUMMERS FADE’ is from a poem dedicated to Hannah Ann Stirling of Keir who died in Carlsbad in 1843. Hannah is buried in old Lecropt Churchyard. Her brother Sir William Stirling Maxwell raised an Iona cross to Hannah with this inscription:
“Sister these woods have seen ten summer’s fade
Since thy dear dust in yonder church was laid;
A few more winters, and this heart, the shrine
Of thy fair memory shall he cold as thine.
Yet may some stranger lingering in these ways,
Bestow a tear on grief of other days:
For if he too, have wept o’er grace and youth
Goodness and wisdom, faith and love and truth,
Untinged with worldly guile or selfish stain,
And ne’er hath looked upon thy like again,
Then, imaged in his sorrow, he may see
All that I loved, and lost, and mourn in thee.”
In the Louvre before Keir House:
To play this short film please click here.
Old Lecropt, in the grounds of Keir is a special place for me. A number of my relatives are buried there including Bridge of Allan’s first doctor. To play each of these films please click on the image:
The million-petalled flower of being here:
A veritable treasure-house of art:
