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Our Birth Is But a Sleep Lyrics by George Dyson

Quo Vadis

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star
Hath had elsewhere its setting
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness
And not in utter nakedness
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live;
That Nature yet remembers
What was so fugitive!
Those shadowy recollections
Which, be they what they may
Are yet the fountain-light of all our days
Are yet the mastеr-light of all our seeing;
Uphold us, cherish, and have power to makе
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake
To perish never;
Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour
Nor all that is at enmity with joy
Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Hence, in a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither;
Can in a moment travel thither --
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore
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George Dyson

George Dyson

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"Our Birth Is But a Sleep" appears on "Quo Vadis".

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