Reflexões de Natal

Time past and time future

Allow but for a little consciousness

To be conscious is not to be in time

But only in time can the moment in the rosa-garden,

The moment in the arbour where the rain beat

The moment in the draughty church at smokefall

Be remembered; involved with past and future

Only through time time is conquered

T.S. Elliot, Four Quartets

David Feay, 1950, National Geographic