“Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is a short parenthesis in a long period, and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”
More from John Donne
“My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;…”
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
“Prince, Subject, Father, Son, are things forgot, For every man alone thinks he hath got To…”