Silence - A Fable - Edgar Allan Poe

Self-initiated ink illustration of Silence - A Fable, by Edgar Allan Poe

“It was night, and the rain fell; and, falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood. And I stood in the morass among the tall lilies, and the rain fell upon my head —and the lilies sighed one unto the other in the solemnity of their desolation.”