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64 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1854
A mystery of love inhabits metal;
"All things feel!"
And all sway humankind.
Golden Lines
"Imobile Destin, muette sentinelle,
Froide Nécessité! ...Hasard qui t'acançant,
Parmi les mondes morts sous la neige éternelle,
Refroidis, par degrés l'univers pâlissant,
Sais-tu ce que tu fais, puissance originelle,
De tes soleils éteints, l'un l'autre se froissant...
Es-tu sûr de transmettre une haleine immortelle,
Entre le monde qui meurt et l'autre renaissant?
"Motionless Destiny, dumb sentry, cold
Necessity! ... Chance, as you range across
Dead worlds forever in the hold of snow,
And slowly freeze the paling universe,
Primordial power, do you comprehend,
Now that your suns consume and crush to death,
What are you doing? Can you surely send
From dying to renaiscent worlds life's breath?
Often a God lives in obscure things hid;
And like an eye at birth veiled by its lid,
Under the skin of stones a pure soul grows!