Tulipe

New Creation by Thomas Fontaine

"I found my black tulip (...) Incomparable flower, tulip found, it is there, isn't it in this beautiful country so calm and so dreamy, that we should go live and flower? (...) These perfumes, these miraculous flowers, it's you. It's you again, those great rivers and quiet canals. These huge ships they cart, laden with wealth, and from which the monotonous chants of maneuver rise, it is my thoughts that sleep or roll on your bosom. You lead them gently towards the sea which is Infinite, while reflecting the depths of the sky in the limpidity of your beautiful soul; - and when tired by the swell and gorged with the products of the East, they return to their native port, it is still my enriched thoughts that return from the Infinite to you. ". Charles Baudelaire - The Invitation to Travel