a silver mt zion | "13 angels standing guard round the side of your bed" | he has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corners of our room | 2000
yet all man’s life is but ailing and dim,
and rest upon the earth comes never.
but if any far-off state there be,
dearer than life to mortality,
the hand of the Dark hath hold thereof,
and mist is under and mist above.
and some are sick for life, and cling
on earth to this nameless and shining thing;
for other life is a fountain sealed,
and the deeps below us are unrevealed,
and we drift on legends forever.
–euripides of salamis, hippolytus (c. 428 bc)
