Quote#Wisdom
The sacred lamp of day
Quote byWilliam Falconer · 1732–1769
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Shipwreck (1762), Canto II, line 27..
English (original)
The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.
— William Falconer
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High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!
Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock; Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes In wild despair; while yet another stroke With strong convulsion …
The scene was changed. It was a bark that slowly held its way, And o'er its lee the coast of France in the light of evening lay; And on its deck a lady sat, who gazed with tearful eyes Upon the fast receding hills that dim and distant rise.
So All is diff’rent, and yet All is One.