ETERNITY.
The time will come when every change shall cease,
This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
No summer then shall glow, nor winter freeze;
Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now shall ever last.
The Triumph of Eternity. PETRARCH.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.
Davideis, Bk. I. A. COWLEY.
This speck of life in time's great wilderness,
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future, two eternities!
Lalla Rookh; The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. T. MOORE.
And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
Night Thoughts, Night I. DR. E. YOUNG.
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;
'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,
And indicates eternity to man.
Cato, Act v. Sc. I. J. ADDISON.