What rare delicacy must once have been
contained in this elegant bowl? Sorbets of
snow from the mountains of Lebanon
flavored with fruit syrups from Persia? The
first, blushing berries of some ancient spring,
plucked from the Judean hills? Surely the
elegance of the contents must have matched
that of the bowl, which seems a fitting
receptacle for the stuff of dreams.
- (G.0109)