Saturday, 22 November 2014

Thought for Today

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting,
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting
And cometh from afar.

                               Wm. Wordsworth.  Ode - Intimations of Immortality (1807) st.7




A pebble, thrown into the mighty sea,
Sinks, and disturbs not its tranquillity:
No ocean, but a shallow pool, the man,
Whom very little wrong disquiet can.

Two more small entries in my scrap-book.

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