Side 1:
“Do you not think that there are things
which you cannot understand,
and yet which are;
that some people see things that others cannot?
But there are things
old and new
which must not be contemplate by men’s eyes,
because they know—or think they know—
some things which other men have told them.
Ah, it is the fault of our science
that it wants to explain all;
and if it explain not,
then it says there is nothing to explain.
But yet we see around us every day
the growth of new beliefs,
which think themselves new;
and which are yet but the old…”
From Dr. Seward’s Diary
Bram Stoker
Dracula
Chapter XIV
Side 2:
“I am the pillars of the house;
The keystone of the arch am I.
Take me away, and roof and wall
Would fall to ruin me utterly.
I am the fire upon the hearth,
I am the light of the good sun,
I am the heat that warms the earth,
Which else were colder than a stone.
At me the children warm their hands;
I am their light of love alive.
Without me cold the hearthstone stands,
Nor could the precious children thrive.
I am the twist that holds together
The children in its sacred ring,
Their knot of love, from whose close tether
No lost child goes a-wandering.
I am the house from floor to roof,
I deck the walls, the board I spread;
I spin the curtains, warp and woof,
And shake the down to be their bed.
I am their wall against all danger,
Their door against the wind and snow,
Thou Whom a woman laid in a manger,
Take me not till the children grow!”
Katharine Tynan
“Any Woman”
