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But Felt Through All This Fleshly Dress Bright Shoots Of Everlastingness.
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But felt through all this fleshly dress
Bright shoots of everlastingness.
-- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
-- The Retreat
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I saw Eternity the other night, / Like a great ring of pure and endless light, / All calm, as it was brigh
/ And round beneath it, / Time in hours, days, years, / Driv'n by the spheres / Like a vast shadow mov'd...
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was brigh
And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled....
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
-- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) -- They are all gone...
Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark
What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!...
I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth trample on my days,-- My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.
-- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) -- They are all gone...
If you can't dress weird, why dress at all?
She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry Jame
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retrea
that is progress. -- Henry Frederic Amiel, Swiss philosophe...
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 782...