LEAVES OF GRASS

To think of time...to think through the retrospection,
To think today...and the ages continued henceforward.
Have you guessed you yourself would not continue? Have you
dreaded those earth-beetles?
Have you feared the future would be nothing to you?

Is today nothing? Is the beginingless past nothing?
If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.

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Walt Whithman, Leaves of Grass, New York: Dover Publications, 2007, p.78

Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata no. 46 in E major, Hob XVI:31, piano - Vadim Chaimovich.