/lit/ - Literature

What are some of the best short descriptions of Paradise in literature (not an entire book describing it, like Paradiso, or the works of Swedenborg)?

I think on descriptions such as this one that Rilke made about angels, but about Heaven or Paradise:

Every angel is terrifying. And yet, alas,
I invoke you, almost deadly birds of the soul,
knowing about you. Where are the days of Tobias,
when one of you, veiling his radiance, stood at the front door,
slightly disguised for the journey, no longer appalling;
(a young man like the one who curiously peeked through the window).

But if the archangel now, perilous, from behind the stars
took even one step down toward us: our own heart, beating
higher and higher, would beat us to death. Who are you?
Early successes, Creation’s pampered favorites,
mountain-ranges, peaks growing red in the dawn
of all Beginning,—pollen of the flowering godhead,
joints of pure light, corridors, stairways, thrones,
space formed from essence, shields made of ecstasy, storms
of emotion whirled into rapture, and suddenly, alone,
mirrors: which scoop up the beauty that has streamed from their face
and gather it back, into themselves, entire.

>Is there any thinker who admits that we are all going to disappear, that there is no point in anything (other than the artificial meanings we create), that innocent people and creatures suffer for no reason and get nothing in return, that the universe may well have been an accident, etc, BUT that still offers solace for people, but without any form of metaphysical arguments or religious belief?

Is there any philosophy or philosopher that clearly states the following:

There is no evidence to believe in life after death. There is no evidence to show that the universe and our species are nothing but accidents. It is practically certain that consciousness disappears with the cessation of brain activity. The universe will come to an end (long, long, long after our species has already come to an end) and there is no reason why it should have hatched, existed, and finally disappeared.

BUT

That, despite assuming that what was said above is the best fit for everything we know about the cosmos so far, still manages to offer some sort of comfort, but a comfort that is not based on any form of religious belief or semi-belief*?

*Semi-belief: something like the nirvana-escape and the "cessation-of-being" that doesn't actually seem like a ceasing).

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Good taste anon