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An old house with dim windows, closed street doors and a still millstone; explicit poetic imagery, no rigid anatomical decoding.
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Ecclesiastes 12:3-4

The Quieting House

Remember Before the Light Grows Dim · Ecclesiastes 12

Story guide: Interpretive visual essay. Anonymous figures and settings illustrate this passage; they are not identified historical people.

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3on the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the men of strength are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows grow dark,

4and the doors to the street are shut when the sound of the grinding grows faint, and one rises at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low.

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