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Hoping Earth Hour visits often. Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Poet in darkness" "Leaves closed beneath kisses of night"
"A poet is a nightingale,
who sits in darkness and sings
to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
"A Defence of Poetry," 1840
A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Sensitive Plant," 1820
Photo courtesy of WWF / geoffwilson2010 - Earth Hour before & after: The Westminster Palace. On each side of the palace rise the Victoria Tower and the Clock Tower, which shelters Big Ben, universally famous bell.
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