And that we took into our hands
Spirit of life or subtler thing--
Breathed on us there, and loosed the bands
Of death, and taught us, whispering,
The secret of some wonder-thing.
(Low Tide On Grand Pré)
More Quotes from Bliss Carman:
And we perceive, not aweBut love is the great law
That binds the world together safe and whole.
Bliss Carman
All the beauty and mystery
Of life were there, adventure bold,
Youth, and the glamour of the sea
And all its sorrows old.
Bliss Carman
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Bliss Carman
There is no period
Between the soul and God;
Love is the tide, God the eternal sea.
Bliss Carman
And with the verbal creed
That God is love indeed,
Who dares make Love his god before all men?
Bliss Carman
This is the law of being
That links the threefold chain:
The life we give to beauty
Returns to us again.
Bliss Carman
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