Tristan Søbye Rapp is a biologist, essayist and amateur prehistorian who writes, among other places, at his websites tristansobyerapp.com and theextinctions.com.
All the world is a passing thing, more fleeting than the rain, The sun rides up, the sun rides down, another day to gain, And when the summer first has come, in shades and scents of June, At once the year is riding down, unto a winter moon, The friend of morn is a foe…
Fail the fires, fail the light And fail the stars upon the night, In darkness be the Earth unmade, Till even ashen embers fade; Still here I stand and here I stay, Through frigid night and bitter day, And though we spin on shadow’s lathe, And though we struggle in our faith, I will not…