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There Is a Silence Where Hath Been No Sound; There Is a Silence Where No Sound May Be

On The Storks and the Rhythm of the World

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Anna Atsu
Sep 28, 2025
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Józef Chełmoński (1849–1914), The Storks, National Museum in Warsaw

Today I’ve been thinking of Thomas Hood’s poem Silence, whose opening words also became the title of this article, and I felt compelled to write. There is a silence where hath been no sound; There is a silence where no sound may be.(…) But clouds and cloudy shadows wander free… Hood’s po…

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