First Known When Lost: Life Explained, Part Eighteen: "An Aimless Unallayed Desire"
Excerpt:
Destiny
Why each is striving, from of old,
To love more deeply than he can?
Still would be true, yet still grows cold?
-- Ask of the Powers that sport with man!
They yoked in him, for endless strife,
A heart of ice, a soul of fire;
And hurled him on the Field of Life,
An aimless unallayed Desire.
Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems (1852).
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