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Richard Francis Burton on Time

1821–1890 England

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The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line
Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all, the puny all thou callest thine.

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show?
Why meanly bargain to believe, which only means thou ne'er canst know?
How may the passing Now contain the standing Now — Eternity? —
An endless is without a was, the be and never the to-be?

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

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