“Faintly as tolls the evening chime,
Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Poems Relating to America. A Canadian Boat Song, st. 1.
“And all the way, to guide their chime,
With falling oars they kept the time.”
Bermudas (1657)
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Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Apollonius of Rhodes book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book IV. Homeward Bound, Lines 930–932
“the clock
chimes, chimes, and stops
but the river…”
William J. Higginson (1938–2008) American writer
Meeting Award, Haiku Society of America, May 1969
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“…the ocean kept falling into itself, gathering itself up, and falling into itself again.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Ground Book
Context: There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. In strategy there are various timing considerations. From the outset you must know the applicable timing and the inapplicable timing, and from among the large and small things and the fast and slow timings find the relevant timing, first seeing the distance timing and the background timing. This is the main thing in strategy. It is especially important to know the background timing, otherwise your strategy will become uncertain.
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 82
Context: If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love. For in the Beholding of God we fall not, and in the beholding of self we stand not; and both these be sooth as to my sight. But the Beholding of our Lord God is the highest soothness. Then are we greatly bound to God that He willeth in this living to shew us this high soothness. And I understood that while we be in this life it is full speedful to us that we see both these at once. For the higher Beholding keepeth us in spiritual solace and true enjoying in God; that other that is the lower Beholding keepeth us in dread and maketh us ashamed of ourself. But our good Lord willeth ever that we hold us much more in the Beholding of the higher, and leave not the knowing of the lower, unto the time that we be brought up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesus unto our meed and be fulfilled of joy and bliss without end.