Free Pony Theory ~ [MdM post] 3 pieces for war

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Unbound
http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel11613.html

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tying 3 lists

- mathrock
- folks/acoustic
- downtempo

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Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

The lines "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity" are a paraphrase of one of the most famous passages from Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a book which Yeats, by his own admission, regarded from his childhood with religious awe:

In each human heart terror survives
The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear
All that they would disdain to think were true:
Hypocrisy and custom make their minds
The fanes of many a worship, now outworn.
They dare not devise good for man's estate,
And yet they know not that they do not dare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem)

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