Good morning to all.
I found this poem in my readings this morning. it seemed to apply to this thread. I hope this material is acceptable here.
Thank you for your time.
Hail and acclaim the Overcoming Man.
Happy are they who hear and understand
Happy are they who, when alone with Night,
Feel calm, and deep, and broad as Night;
Whose faces are not smitten in the dark
by wrongsThey perpetrated in the dark;
Whose eyelids do not smart with tears they caused
Their fellowmen to shed;
Whose hands do not itch with mischief and with greed;
Whose ears are not besieged with hissings of their lust;
Whose thoughts are not bitten with their thoughts;
Whose hearts are not hives for all manners of cares
That swarm without an end from every nook of Time;
Whose fears burrow no tunnels in their brains;
Who can say boldly unto Night, ‘Reveal us unto Day’,
And say to Day, ‘Reveal us unto Night ‘.
Aye, thrice happy are they who, when alone with Night,
Feel so well-turned, so still, so infinite at Night.
To them alone Night sings the Overcomer’s song.
By MIKHAIL NAIMY
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