Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Nothing is lost; the universe is honest,
Time, like the sea, gives all back in the end,
But only in its own way, on its own conditions:
Empires as grains of sand, forests as coal,
Mountains as pebbles. Be still, be still, I say;
You were never the water, only a wave;
Not substance, but a form substance assumed.
[Elder Olson — Great Occasions, edited by Carl Seaburg, Beacon Press, 1968, p. 388]
Time, like the sea, gives all back in the end,
But only in its own way, on its own conditions:
Empires as grains of sand, forests as coal,
Mountains as pebbles. Be still, be still, I say;
You were never the water, only a wave;
Not substance, but a form substance assumed.
[Elder Olson — Great Occasions, edited by Carl Seaburg, Beacon Press, 1968, p. 388]
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