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.
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The time will come when every change shall cease,
This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
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The time will come when every change shall cease,
This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;
Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now shall ever last.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear read more
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
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.
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!
Eternity forbids thee to forget.
Eternity forbids thee to forget.
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what new scenes and changes read more
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
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.]
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.
