Death--and AfterwardsNew Amsterdam Book Company, 1901 - 65 páginas |
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AMSTERDAM BOOK angels answer argument Beginning are dreams believe birth bodily senses body breath cellular coming conceivable conception conscious cosmic countless dead death Death-and Afterwards delicate developed discern Divine dog-fish dogma doubt earth earthly End and Beginning endless eternal ethereal evolution existence exquisite faculties fear find themselves misled float fresh future gentle glad heart heavenly higher hope human idea ignorance illusion of disbelief imagined immortality individual Instincts intelligence invisible less light live lowest magic materialists matter and motion medusa mental metaphysic mind moral presumption mother Nature nature of things nerve ness never observation organs perceptions perpetual physical science plainest facts poet praise present probably realize reason revelation says sceptical seems SIR EDWIN ARNOLD solar solar system solid space speak speech and thought spirit stars subtler supernatural surely tain thee a song things THOMAS COLE thou tion truth universe vast whisper wonder
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Página 63 - And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. Approach strong deliveress, When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead, Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee, Laved in the flood of thy...
Página 60 - Ah, Love ! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits — and then Remould it nearer to the heart's desire...
Página 64 - And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree-tops I float thee a song, Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide, Over the dense-pack'd cities all and the teeming wharves and ways, I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.
Página 37 - neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And, lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ! or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun death with anxious strife 1 If LIGHT can thus deceive, wherefore not LIFE ?
Página 63 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.
Página 3 - Never the spirit was born ; the spirit shall cease to be never ; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams ! Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever ; Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems...
Página 58 - Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusque per artem Movit agros curis acuens mortalia corda, Nee torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno.
Página 64 - From me to thee glad serenades, Dances for thee I propose, saluting thee, — adornments and feastings for thee, And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night. The night in silence under many a star, The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know, And the soul turning to thee, O vast and well-veiled death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.
Página 63 - Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. Approach, strong deliveress! When it is so, when thou hast taken them, I joyously sing the dead, Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee, Laved...
Página 7 - ... the brief span of mortal years, which breed most human offences. And many noble and gentle souls, which will not stoop to selfish sins, even because life is short, live prisoners, as it were, in their condemned cells of earth, under what they deem a sentence from which there is no appeal, waiting in sad but courageous incertitude the last day of their incarceration; afraid to love, to rejoice, to...