Eternity

Eternity is not, as men believe,
Before and after us, an endless line.
No; "tis a circle, infinitely great,
All the circumference with creatures thronged
God at the centre dwells, beholding all.
And, as we move in this eternal round
The finite portion which alone we see,
Behind us, is the Past; what lies before
We call the Future. But to Him who dwells
Far in the centre, equally remote
From every point of the circumference,
Both are alike the Future and the Past.