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"This is the great abysm between Abraham and Dives," said he, "which is called Chaos: this is the land of the matter which God did first create, and here is the seed of every living thing; of these the Almighty Word created your world and all it doth contain water, fire, air, earth, beasts, fishes, insects, birds and the human body; but your souls are of a higher and nobler origin and stock."
The terrified mustangs had sprung out from the cliff had carried their riders into eternity! The dusky warriors pulled up near the brink, and sat gazing upon each other in silent awe. A horseman dashed to the front; and, poising his horse upon the very edge, looked down into the abysm. It was the White Chief. For some moments he regarded the shapeless masses that lay below.
They two were at peace together, their inner hunger appeased, with a sustaining content in life neither had ever known before. When they were together in this intimate silence, their spirits were freed from all bondage, free to rise, to leap upwards out of the encircling abysm of things. And this state of perfect meeting spiritual equilibrium must end....
It will be readily conceived difficult to recall from the "dark backward and abysm" of nearly sixty years the general acts of perhaps the youngest individual in a corporation of between seventy and eighty youngsters; and very little more of Keats's child-life can I remember than that he had a brisk, winning face, and was a favorite with all, particularly with my mother.
This most miserable of all the meagre philosophies that have ever existed came to grief, and dragged down with it into the abysm of discredit, the systems of Fichte and Schelling which had preceded it.
It was in the midst of these gloomy shadows, in the stifling night that every moment seemed to intensify about him, that there began to shine, like a star lost in the dark abysm of space, the light which was to illuminate his life: divine music.... His grandfather gave the children an old piano, which one of his clients, anxious to be rid of it, had asked him to take.
Then she looked at Peter, a fine admixture of mirth with something like gravity in her smile. "The dark backward and abysm of space?" she repeated. "And you do not wear black spectacles? Then it must be that your eyes themselves are just a pair of black-seeing pessimists."
I noticed that, as one goes southward in Italy, the later do ordinary people dine; appetite comes slowly in this climate. Between colazione at midday and pranzo at eight, or even half-past, what an abysm of time! Of course, the Tarantine never reads; the only bookshop I could discover made a poorer display than even that at Cosenza it was not truly a bookseller's at all, but a fancy stationer's.
"Of all Time's words, this is the noblest one That ever spoke to souls and left them blest; Gladly we would have rested had we won Freedom. We have lost, and very gladly rest." Those who have leisure to explore the history of the past, to peer into the dark backward and abysm of Time, must of necessity become smitten with a kind of sad and kindly cynicism.
Still it looks smiling from the platform of the car, and casts a farewell of mock heartbreak from it. Still a gay laugh comes across the abysm of the years that are now numbered, and out of somewhere the hearer's sense is rapt with the mellow cordial of a voice that was like no other.
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