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Poems, Chiefly Lyrical/οἱ ῥέοντες

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4356796Poems, Chiefly Lyrical — οἱ ῥέοντεςAlfred Tennyson

όι ῥέοντες.

I.
All thoughts, all creeds, all dreams are true,
All visions wild and strange;
Man is the measure of all truth
Unto himself. All truth is change:
All men do walk in sleep, and all
Have faith in that they dream:
For all things are as they seem to all,
And all things flow like a stream.

II.
There is no rest, no calm, no pause,
Nor good nor ill, nor light nor shade,
Nor essence nor eternal laws:
For nothing is, but all is made.
But if I dream that all these are,
They are to me for that I dream;
For all things are as they seem to all,
And all things flow like a stream.

Argal—this very opinion is only true relatively to the
flowing philosophers.


THE END.

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