Pansies (Lawrence)/The Universe Flows—

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THE UNIVERSE FLOWS———
The universe flows in infinite wild streams, relatedin rhythms too big and too small for us to know,since man is just middling, and his comprehension just middling.
If once, for a second, the universe ceased to flowof course it would cease to exist.The thought is unthinkable, anyhow.
Only man tries not to flow,repeats himself over and over in mechanical monotony of conceitand hence is a mess.
If only Cleopatra had left off being so Cleopatra-ish—she was it too long— ​if only she had gone down to a deeper self in herselfas time went on,Anthony might have made a splendid thing of the East,she might have saved herself the aspand him from sticking himself like a pigand us from the dreary inheritance of Roman stupidity.

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