The DreamLord ByronOur life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off waking toils, They do divide our being; they become A portion of ourselves as of our time, And look like heralds of eternity; They pass like spirits of the past -they speak Like sibyls of the future; they have power -The tyranny of pleasure and of pain; They make us what we were not -what they will, And shake us with the vision that's gone by, The dread of vanished shadows -Are they so? Is not the past all shadow? -What are they? Creations of the mind? -The mind can make Substances, and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. I would recall a vision which I dreamed Perchance in sleep -for in itself a thought, A slumbering thought, is capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour.---------- Il sogno Lord ByronDuplice è la nostra vita: il Sonno ha il suo proprio mondo, un confine tra le cose chiamate impropriamentemorte e esistenza: il Sonno ha il proprio mondo, e un vasto reame di sfrenata realtà;e nel loro svolgersi i sogni hanno respiro, e lacrime e tormenti e sfiorano la gioia;lasciano un peso sui nostri pensieri da svegli, tolgono un peso dalle nostre fatiche da svegli, dividono il nostro essere; diventanoparte di noi stessi e del nostro tempo, e sembrano gli araldi dell'eternità;passano come fantasmi del passato, parlanocome Sibille dell'avvenire; hanno potere -la tirannia del piacere e del dolore;ci rendono ciò che non fummo, secondo il loro volere, e ci scuotono con dissolte visioni, col terrore di svanite ombre. Ma sono veramente così? Non è forse tutto un'ombra il passato? Cosa sono? Creazioni della mente? La mente sa crearesostanza, e popolare pianeti, di sua fattura, di esseri più splendenti di quelli mai esistiti, e darerespiro e forma che sopravvivono alla carne. Vorrei richiamare una visione che ho sognatoforse nel sonno, poiché in sé un pensiero, un pensiero assopito, racchiude anni, e in un'ora condensa una lunga vita. . George Gordon Byron
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