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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118309" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Questioning Spirit</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The human spirits saw I on a day,<br>Sitting and looking each a different way;<br>And hardly tasking, subtly questioning,<br>Another spirit went around the ring<br>To each and each: and as he ceased his say,<br>Each after each, I heard them singly sing,<br>Some querulously high, some softly, sadly low,<br>We know not, what avails to know?<br>We know not, wherefore need we know?<br>This answer gave they still unto his suing,<br>We know not, let us do as we are doing.<br>Dost thou not know that these things only seem?<br>I know not, let me dream my dream.<br>Are dust and ashes fit to make a treasure?<br>I know not, let me take my pleasure.<br>What shall avail the knowledge thou hast sought?<br>I know not, let me think my thought.<br>What is the end of strife?<br>I know not, let me live my life.<br>How many days or e’er thou mean’st to move?<br>I know not, let me love my love.<br>Were not things old once new?<br>I know not, let me do as others do.<br>And when the rest were over past,<br>I know not, I will do my duty, said the last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy duty do? rejoined the voice,<br>Ah, do it, do it, and rejoice;<br>But shalt thou then, when all is done,<br>Enjoy a love, embrace a beauty<br>Like these, that may be seen and won<br>In life, whose course will then be run;<br>Or wilt thou be where there is none?<br>I know not, I will do my duty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And taking up the word around, above, below,<br>Some querulously high, some softly, sadly low,<br>We know not, sang they all, nor ever need we know!<br>We know not, sang they, what avails to know?<br>Whereat the questioning spirit, some short space,<br>Though unabashed, stood quiet in his place.<br>But as the echoing chorus died away<br>And to their dreams the rest returned apace,<br>By the one spirit I saw him kneeling low,<br>And in a silvery whisper heard him say:<br>Truly, thou know’st not, and thou need’st not know;<br>Hope only, hope thou, and believe alway;<br>I also know not, and I need not know,<br>Only with questionings pass I to and fro,<br>Perplexing these that sleep, and in their folly<br>Imbreeding doubt and sceptic melancholy;<br>Till that, their dreams deserting, they with me<br>Come all to this true ignorance and thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><div class=q>
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