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61 " Und was ich in dem Palmenhain an diesem Abend erfuhr, das wuchs in meiner Phantasie und breitete sich aus tausend Ästen und Zweigen, furchtbeladen und schattenspendend gleich jenen, unter denen ich halb zuhörend, halb träumend saß, während die Dämmerung wuchs und die Nacht. "
― T.E. Lawrence , Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
62 " Dedication to The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"I loved you, so I drew these tides ofMen into my handsAnd wrote my will across theSky and starsTo earn you freedom, the sevenPillared worthy house,That your eyes might beShining for meWhen we cameDeath seemed my servant on theRoad, ’til we were nearAnd saw you waiting:When you smiled and in sorrowfulEnvy he outran meAnd took you apart:Into his quietnessLove, the way-weary, groped to your body,Our brief wageOurs for the momentBefore Earth’s soft hand explored your shapeAnd the blindWorms grew fat uponYour substanceMen prayed me that I set our work,The inviolate house,As a memory of youBut for fit monument I shattered it,Unfinished: and nowThe little things creep out to patchThemselves hovelsIn the marred shadowOf your gift. "
63 " All men dream: but nor equally, Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses oftheir minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. "