Igdrasil: Or, The Tree of ExistenceLindsay and Blakeston, 1859 - 162 pagina's |
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Pagina 7 - boughs," with their buddings and disleafings, — events, things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word ? Its boughs are histories of nations. The rustle of it is the noise of human existence, onwards from of old. It grows there, the breath of human passion rustling through it: — or stormtost.
Pagina 7 - Fates, — the Past, Present, Future; watering its roots from the Sacred Well. Its 'boughs,' with their buddings and disleafings, — Events, things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word ? Its boughs are Histories of Nations. The rustle of it is the noise of Human Existence, onwards from of old. It...
Pagina 7 - All Life is figured by them as a Tree. Igdrasil, the Ashtree of Existence, has its roots deep down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death ; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads ita boughs over the whole Universe : it is the Tree of Existence.