Showing posts with label Robert Bridges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Bridges. Show all posts
Thursday, May 22, 2025
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Robert Bridges & Kahlil Gibran
our stability is but balance
oh my soul
don't be greedy for heavenly songs
don't be greedy for heavenly songs
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Robert Bridges (1844 - 1930) : From "The Testament of Beauty"
Mortal Prudence, handmaid of Divine Providence,
hath inscrutable reckoning with Fate and Fortune:
We sail a changeful sea through halcyon days and storm,
and when the ship laboureth, our steadfast purpose
trembles like as the compass in a binnacle.
Our stability is but balance, and wisdom lies
in masterful administration of the unforeseen.
. . .
From "The Testament of Beauty"
A Poem in Four Books
Oxford University Press, New York, 1930
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