The candle glimmers but an hour. The nightLooms in its ancient hunger. Would you knowThe tragedy of human love and need?Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!
George Sterling
And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloomDead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.(The Testimony of the Suns)
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Be sure that head and heart were laidIn wisdom down, content to die. Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.(The Passing of Bierce)
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Till her appointed course be run; Till on the darkness faint her breathFlown to the silent void, and DeathSit crowned upon the ashen sun.(The Testimony of the Suns)
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As a breath on glass, -As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return.(The Face of the Skies)
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The pathway traced with blood and tears, and dust of all our father's dead, Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red, Fade to the mist of nameless years.(The Testimony of the Suns)
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Where got she her sullen mouthAnd where her swaying form?Would she live on eggs and applesWhen the blood of men is warm?(The Young Witch)
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Within its gates I heard the soundOf winds in cypress caverns caughtOf huddling tress that moaned, and soughtTo whisper what their roots had found.(A Dream of Fear)
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A prison becomes a home when you have the key.
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What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(The Testimony of the Suns)
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O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity!Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life!(The Testimony of the Suns)
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