“When my arms wrap you round I press
My heart upon the loveliness
That has long faded from the world”
W.B. YEATS, ’Michael Robartes Remembers Forgotten Beauty’
“Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.”
in A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, de James Joyce
WAITING ON AN ANGEL
Ben Harper
Waiting on an angel
one to carry me home
hope you come to see me soon
cause I don't want to go alone
I don't want to go alone
Now angel won't you come by me
angel hear my plea
take my hand lift me up
so that I can fly with thee
so that I can fly with thee
And I'm waiting on an angel
and I know it won't be long
to find myself a resting place
in my angel's arms
in my angel's arms
So speak kind to a stranger
cause you'll never know
it just might be an angel come
knockin' at your door
knockin' at your door
And I'm waiting on an angel
and I know it won't be long
to find myself a resting place
in my angel's arms
in my angel's arms
Waiting on an angel
one to carry me home
hope you come to see me soon
cause I don't want to go alone
I don't want to go alone
don't want to go
I don't want to go alone