“The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
The Golden Legend, Pt. V, A Covered Bridge at Lucerne.
Beautiful Sorta
29 (2005)
“The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
The Golden Legend, Pt. V, A Covered Bridge at Lucerne.
Frances Cornford (1886–1960) English poet
"To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train", from Poems (Hampstead: Priory Press, 1910) p. 20.
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) British musician and poet
George Fox
Context: There's an ocean of darkness and I drown in the night
till I come through the darkness to the ocean of light,
for the light is forever and the light it is free,
"And I walk in the glory of the light," said he.
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
FitzGerald's first edition (1859).
The Rubaiyat (1120)
Nick Lowe (1949) British singer
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" on The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz (1974); the song later became a hit as sung by Elvis Costello. ( Nicke Lowe performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7txCdLCP9U - Elvis Costello & Nick Lowe joint performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWdh7ERLb3E) <br class="br">Context: As I walk through<br>This wicked world<br>Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity,<br>I ask myself<br>Is all hope lost?<br>Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside,<br>Theres one thing I wanna know:<br>What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?
Elvis Costello (1954) English singer-songwriter
Though Costello's cover became a hit, "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding", was actually written by Nick Lowe.
Misattributed
Context: As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity,
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?