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“ The candle glimmers but an hour. The nightLooms in its ancient hunger. Would you knowThe tragedy of human love and need?Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face! ”

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A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

~ George Sterling

And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.(To Science)

~ George Sterling

And starward drifts the stricken world,Lone in unalterable gloomDead, with a universe for tomb,Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

~ George Sterling

Be sure that head and heart were laidIn wisdom down, content to die.Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.(“The Passing of Bierce”)

~ George Sterling