Chapter 9

From RAIN IN SUMMER

From RAIN IN SUMMER

Thus the seer, with vision clear,Sees forms appear and disappearIn the perpetual round of strangeMysterious changeFrom birth to death, from death to birth,From earth to heaven, from heaven to earth,Till glimpses more sublimeOf things unseen beforeUnto his wondering eyes revealThe universe, as an immeasurable wheelTurning for evermoreIn the rapid, rushing river of time.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Thus the seer, with vision clear,Sees forms appear and disappearIn the perpetual round of strangeMysterious changeFrom birth to death, from death to birth,From earth to heaven, from heaven to earth,Till glimpses more sublimeOf things unseen beforeUnto his wondering eyes revealThe universe, as an immeasurable wheelTurning for evermoreIn the rapid, rushing river of time.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Thus the seer, with vision clear,Sees forms appear and disappearIn the perpetual round of strangeMysterious changeFrom birth to death, from death to birth,From earth to heaven, from heaven to earth,Till glimpses more sublimeOf things unseen beforeUnto his wondering eyes revealThe universe, as an immeasurable wheelTurning for evermoreIn the rapid, rushing river of time.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Thus the seer, with vision clear,

Sees forms appear and disappear

In the perpetual round of strange

Mysterious change

From birth to death, from death to birth,

From earth to heaven, from heaven to earth,

Till glimpses more sublime

Of things unseen before

Unto his wondering eyes reveal

The universe, as an immeasurable wheel

Turning for evermore

In the rapid, rushing river of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.


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