Et long et brun et mince comme la nuit
Et pâle comme la pluie
Avec des gouttes de joie au bord de ses yeux noirs
Avec des rires de moi à fleur de lèvres.
The iron ice stung like a goad,
Slashing the torn shoes from my feet,
And all the air was bitter sleet. And all the land was cramped with snow,
Steel-strong and fierce and glimmering wan,
Like pale plains of obsidian.
— And yet I strove — and I was fire
And ice — and fire and ice were one
In one vast hunger of desire.
Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.
Really, other one-pop variations of sex pale after it goes cosmic. And there is an abundance of fake or imitation sex around.
They call him father, liberator, warlord, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the pale blue planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-second of his life.
By anguish which made pale the sun,
I hear Him charge his saints that none
Among his creatures anywhere
Blaspheme against Him with despair,
However darkly days go on.
She has seen the mystery hid
Under Egypt's pyramid:
By those eyelids pale and close
Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
