Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own.
We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
The winds grow high;
Impending tempests charge the sky;
The lightning flies, the thunder roars;
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The winds grow high;
Impending tempests charge the sky;
The lightning flies, the thunder roars;
And big waves lash the frightened shores.
When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;
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When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
Untimely storms makes men expect a dearth.
The man who melts
With social sympathy, though not allied,
Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
The man who melts
With social sympathy, though not allied,
Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one.
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
