THE NIGHT SHADOWS
A wonderful fact to reflect upon,
that every human creature is constituted
to be that profound secret
and mystery to every other.
A solemn consideration,
when I enter a great city by night,
that every one of those darkly clustered houses
encloses its own secret;
that every room in every one of them
encloses its own secret;
that every beating heart
in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is,
in some of its imaginings,
a secret to the heart nearest it!
A wonderful fact to reflect upon,
that every human creature is constituted
to be that profound secret
and mystery to every other.
A solemn consideration,
when I enter a great city by night,
that every one of those darkly clustered houses
encloses its own secret;
that every room in every one of them
encloses its own secret;
that every beating heart
in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is,
in some of its imaginings,
a secret to the heart nearest it!
~ Charles Dickens
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