We are dancing on a volcano.

-Comte de Salvandy,
Words uttered at a fete given by
the Duke of Orleans to
the King of Naples, 1830

Marvel

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky.

-Wordsworth,
My Heart Leaps Up

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Remembrance

And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy gray eye glances
And where thy footstep gleams-
In what ethereal dances
By what eternal streams.

-Poe, To One in Paradise

Delight

There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.

-Isaac Watts, There Is a Land