Vienna in WinterPrince Eugene's Belvedere at Dusk

Sphinges at Dusk
A view of the Lower Palace
and the Inner City from the Upper Belvedere


East Wing of the Upper Belvedere
Reflecting pool and servants quarters


Photographed in the late afternoon
of 27 January 2015

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For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
William Wordsworth

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