And swift, with wondrous swiftness fleeting, The pomp of earth turns round and round, The glow of Eden alternating With shuddering midnight's gloom profound; Up o'er the rocks the foaming ocean Heaves from its old, primeval bed, And rocks and seas, with endless motion, On in the Spheral sweep are sped.
"Faust"
Goethe
The angels are overcome with a mighty sorrow, and relinquishing their burden, they break into song, and the song they sing is one of grief; and above an accompaniment of Spheral music it travels through the spaces of Heaven; and she listens to its wailing echoes as she falls, falls,-falls past the sacred stars to the darkness of terrestrial skies,-falls towards the sea where the dark angels are waiting for her; and as she falls she leans with reverted neck and strives to see their faces, and as she nears them she distinguishes one into whose arms she is going; it is, it is-the...
"A Mere Accident"
George Moore
Each one is fraught with a seed which it exists to sow, but its wild careering and soaring does not fairly begin till its burden is dropped, and its Spheral form is complete.
"A Year in the Fields"
John Burroughs