“O Bells of San Blas in vain
Ye call back the Past again;
The Past is deaf to your prayer!
Out of the shadows of night
The world rolls into light;
It is daybreak everywhere.”
The Bells of San Blas, st. 11 (March 15, 1882).
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Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Back to the Army Again, refrain (1894).
The Seven Seas (1896)
Sister Nivedita (1867–1911) Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and a disciple of Swami Vivekananda
Ralph Ellison book Shadow and Act
Shadow and Act (New York: Random House, 1964), Introduction, p. xix; in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 56.
“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.”
Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
Chế Lan Viên (1920–1989) Vietnamese writer
"Creation", as quoted in "Shattered Identities and Contested Images: Reflections of Poetry and History in 20th-Century Vietnam" by Neil Jamieson, in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1992, p. 89, and in Understanding Vietnam by Neil Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), ISBN 978-0520916586, p. 164
“Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Second chorus, lines 1-12.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
Context: Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time with a gift of tears,
Grief with a glass that ran,
Pleasure with pain for leaven,
Summer with flowers that fell,
Remembrance fallen from heaven,
And Madness risen from hell,
Strength without hands to smite,
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.
