I Saw Eternity



I saw Eternity the other night
Like a great ring of pure and endless light.
    All calm, as it was bright;
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
    Driv'n by the spheres
Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world
    And all her train were hurl'd.

-Henry Vaughan (1622-1695),
Silex Scintillans (1655), The World







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