Life and Existence

Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, à la chandelle,

So leben wir und nehmen immer Abschied.

So leben wir und nehmen immer Abschied.

Memory says: Want to do right? Don’t count on me.

The thing I came for:

The thing I came for:

We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’

We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.

I am going to seek a great perhaps … Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

And suddenly the memory revealed itself.

There died a myriad,

The age demanded an image

For three years, out of key with his time,

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;

Not to go back, is somewhat to advance,

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

All our knowledge is, ourselves to know.

Thus God and nature linked the gen’ral frame,