The Other Truth

The thrashing truths, the scorching pains,
The mounting losses, the skimpy gains,
The misty dream, the distant call,
The flimsy mirage, the silent fall,
Reminds whoever you may be
Life is karma, life is destiny.

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Ebb and Flow

Walked beside the evening sea,
And dreamed a dream that could not be;
The waves that plunged along the shore
Said only -- "Dreamer, dream no more!"




But still the legions charged the beach;
Loud rang their battle-cry, like speech;
But changed was the imperial strain:
It murmured -- "Dreamer, dream again!"

I homeward turned from out the gloom,
That sound I heard not in my room;
But suddenly a sound that stirred
Within my very breast, I heard.

It was my heart, that like a sea
Within my breast beat ceaselessly:
But like the waves along the shore,
It said -- "Dream on!" and "Dream no more!"

~ George William Curtis (1824-1892)