... glorious ...

As drops that dream and gleam

and falling catch the sun,

Evanescent mirrors

every ... one.

~Ezra Pound

We comprehend

Flowering and fading simultaneously.

And somewhere lions still roam,

Magnificent and all unaware

Of any weakness.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Life demands for its fulfillment and completion

a balance of joy and sorrow.

~Carl Jung

I sing the endless finales of things,

I say Nature continues, glory continues,

I praise with electric voice,

For I do not see one imperfection in the universe.

O setting sun! though the time has come,

I still warble under you, if none else does,

unmitigated adoration.

~Walt Whitman