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+------ Thema: You are not peace, you are not happiness; (/showthread.php?tid=17105)
You are not peace, you are not happiness; - ZaunköniG - 23.07.2007
You are not peace, you are not happiness;
I look not on you with content or trust;
Nor is there in you aught with power to bless
Or heal my spirit weary of life's dust.
Nay, you are that which, on a leaden day,
As endless clouds sluggish with rain pass by,
Leaps brilliant once across the sullen grey,
A vivid lightning-gleam in that dead sky.
And I, whose days of sun or cloud have grown
Changelessly furled in one grey monstrous pall,--
I thirst for fierce lights, triumphs, trumpets blown,
And you, most wild and passionate of all,--
You, the bright madness lightening the curse
Of reason's dull reign in the universe.