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Child Of Mortality, Whence Comest Thou? Why Is Thy Countenance Sad, And Why Are Thine Eyes Red With Weeping?
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Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad,
and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
-- Mrs. Barbauld (1743-1825)
-- Hymns in Prose, xiii
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Angels and ministers of grace, defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee...
On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled
So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep....
Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. -- Old Testament -- Psalm iv, 6
Thine is not to reason why, thine is just to figure pi. -- Vulcan humo
Why are there no red M&M's?
Why does love got to be so sad?
Why do people cry when they're sad?
It must be so,--Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught?...
And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Il Penseroso, Line 39...