“Angels’ song, comforting
as the comfort of Christ
When he spake tenderly
to his sorrowful flock.”
Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer
Noel Christmas Eve 1913.
Poetry
“If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.”
Opium (1929)
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Misattributed
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 160.