- The Eagle soars in the summit
of Heaven,
- The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
- O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
- O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
- O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
- The endless cycle of idea and action,
- Endless invention, endless experiment,
- Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
- Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
- Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
- All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
- All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
- But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.
- Where is the Life we have lost in living?
- Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
- Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
- The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
- Bring us farther from GOD and nearer to Dust. 18
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Two Choruses from 'The Rock', T.S.
Eliot
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