POETRY

Prelude: Andante maestoso (quotation from Shelley, Prometheus Unbound)
To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite,/ To forgive wrongs darker than death or night,/ To defy power which seems omnipotent,/ Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent:/ This… is to be/ Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free,/ This is alone life, joy, empire and victory.
Scherzo: Moderato (quotation from Psalm 104, Verse 26)
There go the ships, and there is that Leviathan maketh his home there.
Ye ice falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow/ Adown enormous ravines slope amain —/ Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice,/ And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!/ Motionless torrents! Silent cataracts!
Intermezzo: (quotation from Donne, The Sun Rising)
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,/ Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Epilogue:
I do not regret this journey; we took risks, we knew we took them, things have come out against us, therefore we have no cause for complaint.