Hazelwood Power Station, Victoria, Australia: photo by Simpsons fan 66, 16 October 2007
These are the forgeries of iealousie,
And neuer since the middle Summers spring
Met we on hil, in dale, forrest, or mead,
By paued fountaine, or by rushie brooke,
Or in the beached margent of the sea,
To dance our ringlets to the whistling Winde,
But with thy braules thou hast disturb’d our sport.
Therefore the Windes, piping to vs in vaine,
As in reuenge, haue suck’d vp from the sea
Contagious fogges: Which falling in the Land,
Hath euerie petty Riuer made so proud,
That they haue ouer-borne their Continents.
The Oxe hath therefore stretch’d his yoake in vaine,
The Ploughman lost his sweat, and the greene Corne
Hath rotted, ere his youth attain’d a beard:
The fold stands empty in the drowned field,
And Crowes are fatted with the murrion flocke.
The nine mens Morris is fild vp with mud,
And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene,
For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable.
The humane mortals want their winter heere,
No night is now with hymne or caroll blest;
Therefore the Moone (the gouernesse of floods)
Pale in her anger, washes all the aire;
That Rheumaticke diseases doe abound.
And through this distemperature, we see
The seasons alter; hoared headed Frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson Rose,
And on old Hyems chinne and Icie crowne,
An odorous Chaplet of sweet Sommer buds
Is as in mockry set. The Spring, the Sommer,
The childing Autumne, angry Winter change
Their wonted Liueries, and the mazed world,
By their increase, now knowes not which is which;
And this same progeny of euills,
Comes from our debate, from our dissention,
We are their parents and originall.
William Shakespeare: from A Midsommer Nights Dreame (II.I.81-121), 1600, faithfully reproduced in facsimile from the edition of 1623 (London 1910)
A tanker drops fire retardant while fighting the Flagstaff wildfire in Boulder: photo by Jeremy Papasso/AP via the Guardian, 27 June 2012
2012 Super Derecho storm. Deciding what to move/leave in situ: photo by Master George, 30 June 2012
2012 Super Derecho storm. Giant spinning tops over DC now: photo by Mike Lee, 29 June 2012
OK CuriousDog. The storm's over. You can get off me now: photo by Mike Lee, 29 June 2012
Swimming pool pipe damaged by a flying chair in Super Derecho storm: photo by Master George, 30 June 2012
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