quickly-rusting

Updated: May 25, 2025

If one could but tie up anyhow that stained bundle of inconsequent memories called life, and fling it into a cupboard remoter even than Bluebeard's, and lock the door, and drop the quickly-rusting key into these living waters! He dressed himself with window thrown open to the blackbirds and thrushes, and the occasional shrill solitary whistling of a robin.

Walter De la Mare - The Return