It's Christmas at ground zero / Just seconds left to go / I'll duck and cover / With my Yuletide lover / Underneath the mistletoe

After the gesso was quite smooth and even it was covered with thin layers of tempered bole, to form a colour ground under the gold leaf, and to provide a sleek, lustrous cushion for the under side of the gold to rest on while the burnisher was pressing on the top.

You sulphurous and thought - executing fires , Vaunt couriers to oak - cleaving thunder - bolts

All along the Coast we have ant-heaps ten feet high, and more in diameter.