"Dover Beach" excerpt
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.
-- Matthew Arnold
For those of us dreamers who had had little faith in the reality around us, and who had counted on a true and perfect lover to alleviate us, we should, and would one day realise that the true and perfect lover is one that helps us gain courage and wisdom to turn back into the once-dreaded reality.
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.
-- Matthew Arnold
For those of us dreamers who had had little faith in the reality around us, and who had counted on a true and perfect lover to alleviate us, we should, and would one day realise that the true and perfect lover is one that helps us gain courage and wisdom to turn back into the once-dreaded reality.
posted by Azzurra | 10:54 AM
2 Comments:
Awww...Great one! Liked it much and very true!
And you dont believe whom I bumped into y'day in my language class! He is singaporean as well, was a graduate student of Physics in cornell, moved to Max plank - Goettingen along with his professor. He has no idea of you though!:)
Hey u using ur hotmail account? shall send you an email!
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