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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 time will come when every change shall cease,
 This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
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 The time will come when every change shall cease,
 This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
  No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;
   Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,
    But an eternal now shall ever last. 
 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! 
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.
Eternity forbids thee to forget.
Eternity forbids thee to forget.
 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.] 
The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.
He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.