The Burning Wheel
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.
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The Burning Wheel - Aldous Huxley
THE BURNING WHEEL
BY
ALDOUS HUXLEY
ADVENTURERS ALL
A SERIES OF YOUNG POETS UNKNOWN TO FAME
COME MY FRIENDS—'TIS NOT TOO LATE "TO SEEK A NEWER WORLD
—IT MAY BE THAT THE GULFS WILL WAN US DOWN—IT MAY BE WE
SHALL TOUCH THE HAPPY ISLES—YET—OUR PURPOSE HOLDS—TO
SAIL BEYOND THE SUNSET.
ULYSSES
SPEECH FINELY FRAMED DELIGHTETH THE EARS OF THEM THAT HEAR THE STORY — II MACCAB. XV.
My thanks are due to the Editor of the Nation for permission to reprint The Mirror,
Variations on a theme of Laforgue
and Philosophy.
THE BURNING WHEEL.
Wearied of its own turning,
Distressed with its own busy restlessness,
Yearning to draw the circumferent pain—
The rim that is dizzy with speed—
To the motionless centre, there to rest,
The wheel must strain through agony
On agony contracting, returning
Into the core of steel.
And at last the wheel has rest, is still,
Shrunk to an adamant core:
Fulfilling its will in fixity.
But the yearning atoms, as they grind
Closer and closer, more and more
Fiercely together, beget
A flaming fire upward leaping,
Billowing out in a burning,
Passionate, fierce desire to find
The infinite calm of the mother's breast.
And there the flame is a Christ-child sleeping,
Bright, tenderly