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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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20 KING ALFRED'S

40 lines
Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
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ave asked thee. But I would still ask thee a question,which I am perplexed about. Then said he : What is that?Then said I : I am well aware that God knows everythingbeforehand, both good and evil, before it happens, but Iknow not whether it all shall unchangeably happen, whichhe knows and has decreed. Then said he : It need not allhappen unchangeably. But some of it shall happen un-changeably, that is, what shall be our necessity, and shallbe his will. But some of it is so arranged that it is not nec-essary, and yet hurts not if it happen ; nor is there any harmif it do not happen. Consider now concerning thyself,whether thou hast so firmly designed anything, that thouthinkest that it never with thy consent may be changed, northou exist without //. Or whether thou again in any designart so inconsistent, that it aids thee, whether it happen, orwhether it happen not. Many a one is there of the thingswhich God knows before it may happen, and knows also thatit will hurt his creatures if it happen. He does not knowit, because he wills that it should happen, but because hewills to provide that it may not happen. Thus a good pilotperceives a great storm of wind before it happens, and givesorder to furl the sail, and moreover sometimes to lower themast, and let go the cable, if he first restrain the perversewind, and so provides against the storm. Wherefore vex ye your minds with evil hatred, as wavesthrough the wind agitate the sea? Or wherefore upbraidye your fortune, that she has no power? Or why cannot yewait for natural death, when he every day hastens towardyou? Why cannot ye observe that he seeks every day afterbirds, and after beasts, and after men, and forsakes no tracktill he seizes that which he pursues? Alas! that unhappymen cannot wait till he comes to them, but anticipate him,as wild beasts wish to destroy each other! But it would notbe right in men, that any one of them should hate another.But this would be right, that every one of them should ren-der to another recompense of every work according to hisdeserts ; that is, that one should love the good, as it is rightthat we should do, and should have mercy on the wicked,as we before said; should love the man, and hate his vices;and cut them ofE, as we best may.
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