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 Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
 The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
  Hush, ye read more 
 Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
 The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
  Hush, ye will say, it is eternity!
   This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there
    The columns of the heavenly palaces. 
 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.] 
 Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise
 Up between two eternities!  
 Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise
 Up between two eternities! 
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can read more
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence
 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. 
 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!