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And for to se, and eek for to be seye.
And for to se, and eek for to be seye.
A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.
[Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]
A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.
[Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]
He that had neither beene kithe nor kin,
Might have seene a full fayre sight.
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He that had neither beene kithe nor kin,
Might have seene a full fayre sight.
- Thomas Percy,
And every eye
Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.
And every eye
Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you.
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you.
And finds with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black--nor white so very white.
And finds with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black--nor white so very white.
Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars.
Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars.
We see things not as they are but as we are.
We see things not as they are but as we are.