December 31, 2007
That time may cease, and midnight never come
Ah, Faustus,
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
From Faust’s final outburst. Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
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2 Responses to “That time may cease, and midnight never come”
Beautiful photo. Yours?
Oh, yes indeed. Glad you like it.
I’ve been thinking lately about time, space, and motion. Anyway, both the image and its associated passage from Marlowe seemed apt last night as the clock ticked its way toward midnight.