Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p If from the earth we came, it was an earth That bore us as a part of all things It breeds and that was lewder than it is. Our nature is her nature. Hence it comes, Since by our nature we grow old, earth grows The same. We parallel the mother's death. She walks an autumn ampler than the wind Cries up for us and colder than the frost Pricks in our spirits at the summer's end, And over the bare spaces of our skies She sees a barer sky that does not bend. The body walks forth naked in the sun And, out of tenderness or grief, the sun Gives comfort, so that other bodies come, Twinning our phantasy and our device, And apt in versatile motion, touch and sound To make the body covetous in desire Of the still finer, more implacable chords. So be it. Yet the spaciousness and light In which the body walks and is deceived, Falls from that fatal and barer sky, And this the spirit sees and is aggrieved.. }
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- Anatomy_of_Monotony quote "If from the earth we came, it was an earth That bore us as a part of all things It breeds and that was lewder than it is. Our nature is her nature. Hence it comes, Since by our nature we grow old, earth grows The same. We parallel the mother's death. She walks an autumn ampler than the wind Cries up for us and colder than the frost Pricks in our spirits at the summer's end, And over the bare spaces of our skies She sees a barer sky that does not bend. The body walks forth naked in the sun And, out of tenderness or grief, the sun Gives comfort, so that other bodies come, Twinning our phantasy and our device, And apt in versatile motion, touch and sound To make the body covetous in desire Of the still finer, more implacable chords. So be it. Yet the spaciousness and light In which the body walks and is deceived, Falls from that fatal and barer sky, And this the spirit sees and is aggrieved.".