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With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.
With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
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.
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise
Up between two eternities!
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise
Up between two eternities!
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.
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.]
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!
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity
is not an everlasting flux of time, but time read more
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity
is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short
parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as
it is, though time had never been.
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.
