• Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

    Vladimir Nabokov: Alas! In vain historians pry and probe:    The same wind blows, and in the same live robe    Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care    Examines something she is holding there    Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.
    Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”