Solitary hotel in mountain pass
Autumn. Twilight. Fire lit
In dark corner young man seated
Young woman enters
Restless. Solitary. She sits
She goes to window. She stands
She sits. Twilight. She thinks
On solitary hotel-paper she writes
She thinks. She writes. She sighs
Wheels and hoofs. She hurries out
He comes from his dark corner
He seizes solitary paper
He holds it towards fire
Twilight. He reads. Solitary
What? In sloping, upright and backhands
Queen's hotel, Queen's hotel, Queen's ho-...
Solitary Hotel was written by Samuel Barber & James Joyce.