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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Forever is composed of nows.
Forever is composed of nows.
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame
Over his living head like Heaven is bent,
An early but read more
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame
Over his living head like Heaven is bent,
An early but enduring monument,
Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song
In sorrow.
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.
And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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.
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!
That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
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.
