“Why hast thou nothing in thy face?
Thou idol of the human race,
Thou tyrant of the human heart,
The flower of lovely youth that art.”
Eros http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2933.html, st. 1 (1899).
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Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Poem Sweet Content http://www.bartleby.com/101/204.html

“But who art thou? that Voyce, and beauteous Face,
Not Mortal is; thou art of Heavenly Race.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 94.

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

“Thou art nothing. And all thy desires and memories and loves and dreams, nothing.”
Source: The Worm Ouroboros (1922), Ch. 28 : Zora Rach Nam Psarrion, p. 427
Context: Thou art nothing. And all thy desires and memories and loves and dreams, nothing. The little dead earth-louse were of greater avail than thou, were it not nothing as thou art nothing. For all is nothing: earth and sky and sea and they that dwell therein. Nor shall this illusion comfort thee, if it might, that when thou art abolished these things shall endure for a season, stars and months return, and men grow old and die, and new men and women live and love and die and be forgotten. For what is it to thee, that shalt be as a blown-out flame? and all things in earth and heaven, and things past and things for to come, and life and death, and the mere elements of space and time, of being and not being, all shall be nothing unto thee; because thou shalt be nothing, for ever.

Source: The Way Towards The Blessed Life or the Doctrine of Religion 1806, P. 3