
Shaping Up

“Now the day is over, night is drawing nigh; Shadows of the evening, steal across the sky”. (Sabine Baring-Gould 1834-1924)
Put Out More Flags, the title of Evelyn Waugh’s novel (1942), comes from the saying of an anonymous Chinese sage, quoted and translated by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Living (1937).
“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn”.
Alexander Pope 1709