Long Time Past

A browse through the galleries of Flickr (and in particular this group) last night got me thinking - what would happen when you blended the present with the past? I tried it out on an old image I took of the Tauranga Post Office.

"Like the ghost of a dear friend dead
Is Time long past.
A tone which is now forever fled,
A hope which is now forever past,
A love so sweet it could not last,
Was Time long past.
There were sweet dreams in the night
Of Time long past:
And, was it sadness or delight,
Each day a shadow onward cast
Which made us wish it yet might last--
That Time long past.
There is regret, almost remorse,
For Time long past.
'Tis like a child's belovèd corse
A father watches, till at last
Beauty is like remembrance, cast
From Time long past."
--Percy Bysshe Shelley

Credit to Tauranga City Libraries for the original photo, c. 1910.