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The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is read more
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
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.
That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the
minutes.
[Ger., Was man von der Minute read more
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the
minutes.
[Ger., Was man von der Minute ausgeslagen
Gibt keine Ewigkeit zuruck.]
In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past.
In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past.
(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.
And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?