The lines of the poem were taken from the “Time Passes” section of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. For another use of this section, see Woolf, Eliot, Global Warming, Climate Change, Zeteo is Reading, 22 December 2015. The “featured image” is of the Godvey Lighthouse on St Ives Bay in Cornwall. The lighthouse was an inspiration for Woolf’s novel. Photographer: Martin Bay.

Merry Christmas.

— Wm. Eaton