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The expense of spirit in a waste of shame / Is lust in action; and till action, lust / Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, / Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust, / Enjoyed no sooner but despisèd straight, / Past reason hunted, and no sooner had / Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait, / On purpose laid to make the taker mad; / Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; / Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; / A bliss in proof, and, proved, a very woe; / Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream. / All this the world well knows; yet none knows well / To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. / _Shakespeare's 129th Sonnet._
Time, which is the name we give to our petty portion of Eternity, has no existence in that Eternity which has been defined as the "lifetime of the Almighty"; and so it was that though I remained in the spirit realm but two days, it seemed to me as if weeks, months, years, had elapsed between my death and the hour when I first became conscious of that death.