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Spooks and Sir Walter Scott

July 4, 2013 Poetry, Writing No Comments

Sir Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lady of the Lake…
dream of her reflection as ‘Time rolls his ceaseless course'(canto III, st. 1)

Book Pillow

Book Pillow

A 1999 Spooks sleeps on vintage copy of

A weary cat
A vintage book
A summer snooze
A dream of a lady
Reflected in a lake

Lady Of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott (1830) purchased in 1952.

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