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This is the 4th picture in a series from my recent tour of France's Alsace region, and on the wine trail route to which this series will attempt to give a focus to.
The bay window above one of the many shops the picturesque wine village of Kayserberg , birth place of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (Nobel Peace Prize 1952).

More info here http://www.alsace-info.com/english/tourisme/vins/index.html

I was impressed by the quality of these fine wood carvings, but It wasn't till I returned home to find out the meaning of the writing , it turns out to be a poem title by Oscar Wilde

Ave Maria Gratia Plena
Was this His coming! I had hoped to see
A scene of wondrous glory, as was told
Of some great God who in a rain of gold
Broke open bars and fell on Danae:
Or a dread vision as when Semele
Sickening for love and unappeased desire
Prayed to see God's clear body, and the fire
Caught her brown limbs and slew her utterly:
With such glad dreams I sought this holy place,
And now with wondering eyes and heart I stand
Before this supreme mystery of Love:
Some kneeling girl with passionless pale face,
An angel with a lily in his hand,
And over both the white wings of a Dove.

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