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April 09, 2006


Sunset at Honolulu


Luminous Clouds

[W]e receive but what we give, and in our life alone does Nature live: ...from the soul itself must issue forth a light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud enveloping the Earth....

[T]hou need'st not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be! What, and wherein it doth exist, this light, this glory, this fair luminous mist.... Life, and Life's effluence, cloud at once and shower, Joy ... is the spirit and the power.... Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud--
We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge




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