Slowly through the scented gloom / Crept once more the ruddy gleam [1]

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream [2]

a vision softly creeping / Left its seeds while I was sleeping,

And the vision that was planted in my brain / Still remains [3]

Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day [4]

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; [5]

Running, leaping, / And carousing in sin. [6]

I'm taking walks in my dead garden [7]

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream? [8]

I steal a few breaths / From the world for a minute / And then I'll be nothing forever [9]

Oh! No mortal could support the horror [10] life can only materialize from the rotting cadaver [11]

what did you achieve?

You are exhausting [yourself with] ceaseless toil, [12]

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil [13]

HOW soon doth man decay ! [14]

My friend, whom I love, has turned to clay [12]

He will laugh thee to scorn. [15]

changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born. [16]

In little ways, when everything stays [17]

Together, We'll Shine [18]

someone will remember us

I say

even in another time [19]

[1] Source: The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907) by Alfred Noyes

[2] Source: Letters Written in Sweden (1796) by Mary Wollestonecraft

[3] Source: The Sound of Silence (1964) by Simon & Garfunkel

[4] Source: Darkness (1816) by Lord Byron

[5] Source: Book of Job (700 - 400BC)

[6] Source: The Black Riders, and Other Lines (1895) by Stephen Crane

[7] Source: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2019) by Ezra Furman

[8] Source: A Dream Within a Dream (1849) by Edgar Allan Poe

[9] Source: Me and My Husband (2018) by Mitski

[10] Source: Frankenstein of the Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Shelley

[11] Source: The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon (Original Title: Les Damnés de la Terre)

[12] Source: Epic of Gilgamesh (1300 - 1000BC) translated from Babylonian by Andrew R. George

[13] Source: Hamlet (1599 - 1601) by William Shakespeare

[14] Source: Mortification (1652) by George Herbert

[15] Source: Book of Sirach (200 - 175BC)

[16] Source: Easter 1916 (1916) by William Butler Yeats

[17] Source: Everything Stays (2015) written by Rebecca Sugar, sung by Olivia Olson

[18] Source: Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) written by Yōji Enokido (榎戸 洋司), directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara (幾原 邦彦) (Original Title: 少女革命ウテナ)

[19] Source: Fragment (630 – 570 BC) by Sappho, translated from Ancient Greek by Anne Carson

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