https://moonunit-yue.dreamwidth.org/ I see the moon - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 13 May 2012 01:19:23 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios moonunit_yue personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/3429234/1619936 https://moonunit-yue.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://moonunit-yue.dreamwidth.org/449.html Sun, 13 May 2012 01:19:23 GMT https://moonunit-yue.dreamwidth.org/449.html Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide;<br /> Mortality below her orb is placed.<br />--Raleigh<br /><br />The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray<br /> Mounts up the eastern sky,<br />Not doomed to these short nights for aye,<br /> But shining steadily.<br /><br />She does not wane, but my fortune,<br /> Which her rays do not bless, <br />My wayward path declineth soon,<br /> But she shines not the less.<br /><br />And if she faintly glimmers here, <br /> And paled is her light, <br />Yet alway in her proper sphere <br /> She's mistress of the night.<br /><br />--Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><small>Original <a href="http://www.walden.org/documents/file/Library/About%20Thoreau/D/Dial/MoonMaiden.pdf">text</a> found in Volume X of <i>The Dial</i>.</small><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=moonunit_yue&ditemid=449" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://moonunit-yue.dreamwidth.org/449.html public 0