Everything Is Illuminated

Weihnachten
Markt und Straßen
stehn verlassen,

Still erleuchtet jedes Haus,

Sinnend geh ich durch die Gassen,

Alles sieht so festlich aus.

Christmas
Shops and streets
are now deserted,
every house illuminated soothingly;
Lost in thought along the lanes I wander,
everything exudes such festive air. 

"Christmas"
Poem by
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Translation and Images
© by Merisi


Photographed along
the few hundred meters walking
from Demel's at Kohlmarkt
past Haydn's Michaelerhaus,
St. Michael's Church and
the fountain at St. Michael's Square,
towards Michaelerdurchgang and the passage
from Michaelerplatz to Habsburgergasse.
Christkind "Christchild" Shop Window:
Demel, Kohlmarkt