sun-threads

Updated: June 26, 2025

Whence it came, or how it came, or who bid it come, or whether it came purely of its own head, neither you nor I know but there lay, sure enough, wrapped in its little cloudy swaddling bands a Child Angel. Sun-threads filmy beams ran through the celestial napery of what seemed its princely cradle.

Charles Lamb - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 : Elia and The Last Essays of Elia