When faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And innocence is closing up his eyes,
Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,
From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.
-- Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
-- Ideas, An Allusion to the Eaglets, lxi
And innocence is closing up his eyes,
Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,
From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.
-- Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
-- Ideas, An Allusion to the Eaglets, lxi
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- Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, Vulture... - Now's the time to have some big ideas
Now's the time to make some firm decisions
We saw the Buddha in a bar down south
Talking politics and nuclear fission
We see him and he's all washed up -
Moving on into the body of a beetle Getting ready for... - Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,
yet will not his foolishness depart from him. -- Proverbs... - There is no room for death,
Nor atom that his might could render void;
Thou--Thou art Being and Breath And what Thou art may... - HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.
Delicious Hope!
when naught to man it left -- Of fortune destitute... - So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged... - For I say this is death and the sole death,--
When a man's loss comes to him from his gain,
Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And... - His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong;
his life, I 'm sure, was in the right. -- Abraham... - All my life, I have searched for a car that feels a certain way.
Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like...
