philosopher † ♀️ enough of thought, philosopher : too long hast thou been dreaming unlightened, in this chamber drear while summer's sun is beaming space-sweeping soul, what sad refrain concludes thy musings once again? ♂ "oh, for the time when i shall sleep without identity and never care how rain may steep or snow may cover me no promised heaven, these wild desires could all, or half fulfil no threatened hell, with quenchless fires subdue this quenchless will so said i, and still say the same still, to my death, will say : three gods, within this little frame are warring night and day heaven could not hold them all, and yet they all are held in me and must be mine till i forget my present entity oh, for the time, when in my breast their struggles will be o'er oh, for the day, when i shall rest and never suffer more" ♀️ "i saw a spirit, standing, man where thou dost stand : an hour ago and round his feet three rivers ran of equal depth, and equal flow a golden stream : and one like blood and one like sapphire seemed to be but where they joined their triple flood it tumbled in an inky sea the spirit sent his dazzling gaze down through that ocean's gloomy night then, kindling all, with sudden blaze the glad deep sparkled wide and bright white as the sun, far, far more fair than its divided sources were and even for that spirit, seer i've watched and sought my life-time long sought him in heaven, hell, earth, and air an endless search, and always wrong had i but seen his glorious eye once light the clouds that wilder me i ne'er had raised this coward cry to cease to think, and cease to be i ne'er had called oblivion blest nor stretching eager hands to death implored to change for senseless rest this sentient soul, this living breath oh, let me die : that power and will their cruel strife may close and conquered good, and conquering ill be lost in one repose” ~ ♂️&♀ when i have seen beyond the veil eternal rest shall find : and all of good and all of ill shall be as one combined ~ † adapted from emily brontë, "the philosopher" : 1846 The Complete Works Of Emily Brontë : In Two Volumes Vol. I : Poetry [ed: Clement Shorter] Hodder and Stoughton, New York and London : 1908. cf : The Project Gutenberg eBook of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1019/pg1019-images.html#link2H_4_0023 illustration by rjh and chat-gpt 6 astra (light) blended mix using "September Artist Remix Challenge" https://suno.com/song/92be62e1-ef5e-4db9-ac68-c9e54fa3e9ee special thanks to 𝒜.𝐼. 𝑅𝑜𝒸𝓀𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇'𝟩𝟤 for soundtrack, inspiration, et al ... 🙏
