Principles of Thermodynamics:
. . Human, Urban, and Stellar
(--for chem tutor, a.k.a., An Honest Man)
There is a hill upon a hill; streams there meet,
And these, of sand, whose confluence of earth
Ascends by weight of falling sweat, tame the heat,
Conducted like a crab quite in reverse.
I too ascended on this rill. Here the verse
Of earth on earth grows shrill from throbbing feet
Mysteriously magnified; songs of mirth
Rise there, as bustling visions in the street.
The music dims my eyes with cooling tears;
Each in the valley frore, as flame appears,
And wells around, and as a lid, encloses
The drear echoing which softly disappears.
A vision bright as tears was torn from Moses,
And this sight, all the salt of years opposes.
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