书城公版The Children of the Night
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第14章 Two Quatrains

I

Unity As eons of incalculable strife Are in the vision of one moment caught, So are the common, concrete things of life Divinely shadowed on the walls of Thought.

II

Paraphrase We shriek to live, but no man ever lives Till he has rid the ghost of human breath;We dream to die, but no man ever dies Till he has quit the road that runs to death.