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This speck of life in time's great wilderness
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, read more
This speck of life in time's great wilderness
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future, two eternities!
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
In some read more
Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
In some dread moment. by the fates assign'd,
Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
The speed that spins the future and the past:
And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
Awful eternity shall reign alone.
He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.
He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last.
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the
universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the
universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye read more
Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye will say, it is eternity!
This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there
The columns of the heavenly palaces.
The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.