II
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of οἱ ῥέοντες
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.