Saturday, February 03, 2007
I saw Eternity the other night
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm as it was bright,
And round beneath it time in hours, days, years,
Driven by the spheres,
Like a vast shadow moved in which the world
And all her train were hurled.
from "The World" - Henry Vaughan
i suppose spending the entire day reading has not helped but i'm in a pretty philosophical mood today.
here's yet another poem, but a poem that is very familiar to me. i came across it one day in a book i was reading, years ago. (it was the same book that got me hooked on dolphins, actually) and i've never really forgotten it. the book was beautiful; it talked about issues that i was facing at that age, and of death.. but in a most philosophical way, of course. i recommend that book to anyone who's feeling lost or downtrodden. it is, as i said, beautiful. it's titled A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle.
and everytime i read that poem, it still strikes a chord in my heart. it's written by a 17th century poet who obviously had a much deeper sense of poetry and of worldy issues than people nowadays.
you can find the entire poem here.
i am pretty sure too, that this entry will be of comfort to me in days to come, when i find myself in the most rotten of moods, or when i finally succumb to my thoughts of failure and depression.
after all, Eternity is a comforting notion, however disparaging it may be in that poem.
like a great ring of pure and endless light, how beautiful it is to imagine that in death, and in life.
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