JMW Turner - Shade and Darkness - the Evening of the Deluge (oil on canvas) 1843
"Aloft all hands, strike the top-masts and belay;
Yon angry setting sun and fierce-edged clouds
Declare the Typhon's coming.
Before it sweeps your decks, throw overboard
The dead and dying - ne'er heed their chains
Hope, Hope, fallacious Hope!
Where is thy market now?"
-From JMW Turner's unfinished and unpublished poem Fallacies of Hope, 1812. For the full text of Turner's verse see A. J. Finberg, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 2nd ed., 1961, p. 474
also see these two posts. 1 & 2
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