Borrowed Time, Borrowed World, and Borrowed Eyes with which to Sorrow it

Lastly, the line we had analyzed in class, “Borrowed time and borrowed world ,and  borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it”, relates to one of the last lines In the text: “the breath of god was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all time”, and seems to suggest that life, and all we know,  is on loan from a higher power. Either those, or the mysterious powers that be in the universe, recycle all from one life to the next. Interesting conversation point, surely…

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