My candle burns
at both ends
it will not last
the night
but Ah my foes
and Oh my friends
it gives a lovely
light.
Edna St Vincent Millay.
He who bends to himself a joy,
does the wingéd life destroy.
But he who kisses the joy as it flies,
lives in Eternity's sunrise.
The Divine Image
(from Songs of Innocence)
To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
All pray in their distress,
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.
For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love.
Is God our Father dear;
And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
Is man, his child and care.
For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity, a human face;
And Love, the human form divine;
And Peace, the human dress.
Then every man, of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine:
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.
And all must love the human form,
In heathen, Turk, or Jew.
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is dwelling too.
William Blake
Seht die Sterne
die da lehren
wie man soll
den Meister ehren.
Jeder folgt nach
Newtons Plan
Ewig schweigend
seiner Bahn.
Nature and Nature's
Laws lay hid in night.
God said "Let
Newton be!" and all was light.
Alexander Pope.
Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?
For if it prosper none dare call it treason.
Sir John Harington (1561 - 1612: Godson to
Elizabeth 1st and inventor of the flush toilet.)
.
Posterity shall ne'er survey
a nobler grave than this.
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh,
Stop traveller,
(supply your own ending).
Lord Byron
