The Gentle Music of a Bygone Day
Artist: John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (English, 1829-1908)
Date: 1873
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom
Description
The title is inspired from a quotation from William Morris's 'The Earthly Paradise':
Oh, friends, content you! this is much indeed, And we are paid, thus garnering for our need Your blessings only, bringing in their train God's blessings as the south wind brings the rain. And for the rest, no little thing shall be (Since ye through all yet keep your memory) The gentle music of the bygone years, Long past to us with all their hopes and fears."
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