Mingle shades of joy and woe,
Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife,
In the thread of human life.”
—Scott.
STORY.
THE DAUGHTERS OF NIGHT.
“In their dark House of Cloud
The three weird sisters toil till time be sped:
One unwinds life; one ever weaves the shroud;
One waits to cut the thread.”
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich.