<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Long Odds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many million galaxies there are<br>Who knows? and each has countless stars in it,<br>And each rolls through eternities afar<br>Beneath the threshold of the Infinite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How is it that will all that space to roam<br>I should have found this mote that spins and leaps<br>In what unutterable sunlight, foam<br>Of what unfathomable starry deeps</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who knows!? And how this thousand million souls<br>And half a thousand million souls of earth<br>That swarm, all bound for unimagined goals,<br>All pioneers of death enrolled at birth,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How were they swept away before my sight,<br>That I might stand upon the single prick<br>Of infinite space and time as infinite,<br>Who knows? Yet here I stand, climacteric,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Having found you. Was it by fall of chance?<br>Then what a stake against what odds I have won!<br>Was it determined in God's ordinance?<br>Then wondrous love and pity for His son!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or was it part of an eternal law?<br>Then how ineffably beneficent!<br>Each thought excites an ecstasy of awe,<br>A rapture rending the mind's firmament. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Infinity -yet you and I have met.<br>Eternity -yet hand in hand we run.<br>All odds that I should lose you or forget,<br>But, soul and spirit and body, we are one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is this the child of Chance, or Law, or Will?<br>Is None or All or One to thank for this?<br>It will not matter if thanksgiving fill<br>The endless empyrean with a kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aleister+Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340976" data-title="Long Odds de Aleister Crowley" data-description="How many million galaxies there are Who knows? and each has countless stars in it, And each rolls through eternities afar Beneath the threshold of the Infinite. How is it that will all that space to roam I should have found this mote that spins a..."></div> </div> </div>

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