4/6/12

Poetry


Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,

     vanity of vanities! All is vanity.


What does man gain by all the toil
    at which he toils under the sun?
A generation goes, and a generation comes,
    but the earth remains forever. 
The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
    and hastens to the place where it rises. 
The wind blows to the south
    and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind,
    and on its circuits the wind returns. 
All streams run to the sea,
    but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
    there they flow again. 
All things are full of weariness;
    a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
    nor the ear filled with hearing. 
What has been is what will be,
    and what has been done is what will be done,
    and there is nothing new under the sun. 
Is there a thing of which it is said,
    “See, this is new”?
It has been already
    in the ages before us. 
There is no remembrance of former things,
    nor will there be any remembrance
of later things yet to be
    among those who come after.

Much Love,
TessieB


(P.s. I didn't write this. Do you know who did?)

3 comments:

  1. Is is Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 right?

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    1. hahaha *DingDingDing* We have a winner!!! How did you know??

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  2. well.. I had never really heard of this verse but parts of it gave it away like..."All streams run to the sea,but the sea is not full;to the place where the streams flow,there they flow again." I may have heard that verse but than also after learning about poetry in class i remember my teacher telling me that the Bible is so full of poetry, which must mean poetry is important, and it sounded like something that would be in there! So yeah(:

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