"But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer."
- Sam Gamgee from The Two Towers
In western lands beneath the sun
The flowers may rise in spring
The trees may bud, the waters run
The merry finches sing.
Or maybe there 'tis cloudless night
And swaying beeches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.
Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
The Stars forever dwell
I will not say the Day is done
Nor bid the Stars farewell.
- Samwise Gamgee from The Return of the King
A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer!
in my sylvan home
I tread on the pride
of Greece and Rome
And when I am stretched
beneath the pines
Where the evening star
so holy shines
I laugh at the lore
and pride of man,
At the sophist schools
and the learned clan
For what are they all
in their high conceit
When man in the bush
with God may meet?
R. W. Emerson.
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The World is too much with us; late and soon...
Wide as a waste is wide,
Across these days like deserts, when
Pride and a little scratching pen
Have dried and split the hearts of men,
Heart of the heroes, ride."
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