passion-pulses

Updated: June 22, 2025

On still days, and our gray or golden Norman days are almost always still, faint muffled sounds of life, the throbbing of factories, the farewell boom of cannon from ships setting forth across the Atlantic, even the musical notes of the Angelus, float across the water to us as dreamily vague as perhaps our earth-throbs and passion-pulses reach a world beyond the clouds.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885