“I could not find the way to God;
There were too many flaming suns
For signposts, and the fearful road
Led over wastes where millions
Of tangled comets hissed and burned—
I was bewildered and I turned.”

—  Arthur Quiller-Couch

Poem The White Moth http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-white-moth/

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