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The potter, digging the hoe in the ground, for days on end extracting the clay with his hands.
— Pottery
The potter, digging the hoe in the ground, for days on end extracting the clay with his hands.
What land is this? Yon pretty town And centre of the Potter's trade.
I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.
For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.
The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown,The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.
Turn, turn, my wheel! Turn round and round Though all are made of clay!
Figures that almost move and speak.
And yonder by Nankin, behold! Of flowers illumined by the sun.
Said one among them: "Surely not in vainOr trampled back to shapeless Earth again."
All this of Pot and Potter—Tell me then,Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
