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The Child by Tiger
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- Thus, at the head of those two poles of life will lie the real, the truthful image of its immortal opposite.†
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- Thus, buried in the dark heart of the cold and secret North, abides forever the essential image of the South; thus, at the dark heart of the moveless South, there burns forever the immortal splendor of the North.†
- But often they would turn and come again, these faces and these voices of the past, and burn there in George Webber's memory again, upon the muted and immortal geography of time.†
- burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could shape thy fearful symmetry?†
Definitions:
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(1)
(immortal) living or existing forever
or:
someone famous throughout history
or:
someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, "The Immortals" denotes a military corps of the Persian Empire. The Immortals were so-named because each time a member of the 10,000 man corps was killed or seriously wounded, he was replaced by another man. They are best remembered in western culture for their role in defeating the badly out-numbered Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.