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When you wake, you'll cry to dream again!

When you wake, you'll cry to dream again!

Be not afeard; this valley is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that will give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twanging instruments will hum abou...
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Be not afeard; this valley is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that will give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twanging instruments will hum about your ears and sometimes voices and birdsongs that, if then you had waked after long sleep, will make you sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds you think would open and show God riches ready to drop upon you, that when you wake, you'll cry to dream again! (Paraphrasing The Tempest, Shakespeare).
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The photo is a friend napping in my cottage at Valle del Tietar. Note the dry field: at this time of the year, mid May, should be green. This valley is where came to die Carlos I of Spain and V of Germany, the Spanish Emperor who had under his control a big part of Europe, a big part of North, Central and South America, Papúa, Philippines and some areas of Africa. The Emperor asked his experts and advisors which place within his vast empire was the best in terms of weather and environment, and after some discussions the experts concluded that it was the Valle del Tietar, at the foothills of Sierra de Gredos, in the center-west of Spain. So he decided that this was 'the' place for spending the last years of his life.
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