Dark Edinburgh on Nostr: "Another darkness was closing in as surely, when the church bells, then ringing ...

"Another darkness was closing in as surely, when the church bells, then ringing pleasantly in many an airy steeple over France, should be melted into thundering cannon; when the military drums should be beating to drown a wretched voice, that night all potent as the voice of Power and Plenty, Freedom and Life."
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens