chrestomatheia:Walter Crane (1845-1915), The Bridge of Life.He wrote a sonnet to accompany his pictu
chrestomatheia:Walter Crane (1845-1915), The Bridge of Life.He wrote a sonnet to accompany his picture:What is Life? A Bridge that ever Bears a throng across a river; There the Taker; here the Giver. What is Life? In its beginning From the Staff is Clotho spinning Golden threads and worth the winning. Life beginning and Life ending, Life his substance ever spending, Time to Life his little lending. Life with Life, fate-woven ever, Life the web, and Love the weaver Atropos at last doth sever. What is Life to Grief complaining? Fortune, Fame, and Love disdaining Hope, perchance, alone remaining. -- source link