James Elroy Flecker Quote

Four great gates has the city of Damascus …
Postern of Fate, the Desert Gate, Disaster Cavern, Fort of Fear …
Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing.
Have you heard
That silence where the birds are dead yet something pipeth like a bird?


'The Gates of Damascus' (1913)


Four great gates has the city of Damascus … Postern of Fate, the Desert Gate, Disaster Cavern, Fort of Fear … Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or...

Four great gates has the city of Damascus … Postern of Fate, the Desert Gate, Disaster Cavern, Fort of Fear … Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or...

Four great gates has the city of Damascus … Postern of Fate, the Desert Gate, Disaster Cavern, Fort of Fear … Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or...

Four great gates has the city of Damascus … Postern of Fate, the Desert Gate, Disaster Cavern, Fort of Fear … Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or...