There's a passage in Thoreau :
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
I drink at it,
but while i drink,
I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
Its current slides away,
but eternity remains.
I would drink deeper,
fish in the sky,
whose bottom is pebbly with stars."
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
I drink at it,
but while i drink,
I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
Its current slides away,
but eternity remains.
I would drink deeper,
fish in the sky,
whose bottom is pebbly with stars."
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