TYRE, LEBANON: “SAD-EYED LADY OF THE LOWLANDS”

Tyre is also prominently featured in the Shakespeare play Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
In nineteenth century Britain, Tyre was several times taken as an exemplar of the mortality of great power and status – both by John Ruskin in the opening lines of The Stones of Venice, and by Rudyard Kipling‘s “Recessional“. Oscar Wilde referred to Tyre in his poetry: “…my tyrian galley waits for thee, come down the purple sail is spread…” The children’s writer E. Nesbit devotes a chapter to Tyre in The Story of the Amulet.
The third verse of Bob Dylan‘s Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands begins “The kings of Tyrus with their convict list / Are waiting in line for their geranium kiss” (wiki)

28JUL13. Tyre, Lebanon.