the future “gives” the past to the present provided its presence persists—
but it decays which in a perfect (that is eternal) yielding offers the future its past and this perfects the relation (which, like love, is made so in being reciprocated) even as its opposite (all that copulate) begin the existing & put the past in debt: an obligation to the future that can only be satisfied in the dead for in the absence of bequeath & devise there is but the god & expectation
but it decays which in a perfect (that is eternal) yielding offers the future its past and this perfects the relation (which, like love, is made so in being reciprocated) even as its opposite (all that copulate) begin the existing & put the past in debt: an obligation to the future that can only be satisfied in the dead for in the absence of bequeath & devise there is but the god & expectation
