IDLE HOURS (1999)

(code B0001)

Oil on Paper
Approx. 61cm x 46cm
$400 (Currency Converter)

I would I were a careless child,
Still roaming in my Highland cave,
Or roaming through the dusky wild,
Or bounding o'er the dark blue wave;
The cumbrous pomp of Saxon pride
Accords not with the freeborn soul,
Which loves the mountain's craggy side,
And seeks the rocks where billows roll.

Fortune! Take back these cultured lands,
Take back this name of splendid sound!
I hate the ……
BYRON
[first published in 1807]