“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) Russian poet and essayist
Source: The Selected Poems
“And I shall get to know you
In these lifetimes
In awe and wonder
On down through the years
The nighttime angel spreads her wings around me
I feel the silence
And my doubts are cleared.”
Lifetimes
Song lyrics, Wavelength (1978)
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On down through the years
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