<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">"How Little Seem the Joys and Fears"</h1><p class="epigraph"></p><blockquote> "He has placed the world in man's heart"</blockquote><p>(<em>Ecclesiastes</em>).</p><p class="epigraph"></p><blockquote>"War' nicht das Auge sonnenhaft wie konnt es dann das Licht erblicken."</blockquote><div class="stanza"><p class="line">HOW little seem the joys and fears</p><p class="line">We shun or chase,</p><p class="line">How foolish seem our fevered years</p><p class="line">Of smiles and tears,</p><p class="line">Beside the music of the spheres</p><p class="line">And the high harmonies of Space!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Natheless the spinning dædal world,</p><p class="line">Floats in the current of our veins;</p><p class="line">Within our souls the stars are whirled;</p><p class="line">We breed the planets in our brains.</p><p class="line">From us all Being has its birth,</p><p class="line">Of all things is our being spun;</p><p class="line">In us are Heaven, and Hell, and Earth,</p><p class="line">And every star, and every sun.</p></div></body></html> · Great War