Confusion’s in this Heaven. For yourself,
all is made fair now. Heaven had. Its parting
made, we are all. And the better for it.
Death could not keep you from your part. In her,
him, the eternal keeps, but Heaven’s life parts.
You don't have to cross the stars to find love, but you do have to find the little bit of the stars' love that sits in you. Here are the Bard's lines (spoken by the Friar) that inspired my blasphemies above:
Peace, ho! for shame! Confusion’s cure lives not
In these confusions. Heaven and yourself
Had part in this fair maid; now Heav’n hath all,
And all the better is it for the maid.
Your part in her you could not keep from death,
But Heav’n keeps his part in eternal life.
[Romeo & Juliet: IV.iv.101-105]
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It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night-
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear Crossing oceans whose phrase of sorrow
Conjures the wand'ring stars and makes them stand
Like wonder-wounded hearers
"The weight of this sad time
we must obey;
Speak what we feel,not what we ought to say."King Lear
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