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Then a hermit who visited the city once a year came forth and said Speak to us of Pleasure	A
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And he answered saying	B
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Pleasure is a freedom song	C
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But it is not freedom	D
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It is the blossoming of your desires	E
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But it is not their fruit	F
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It is a depth calling unto a height	G
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But it is not the deep nor the high	H
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It is the caged taking wing	B
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But it is not space encompassed	I
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Ay in very truth pleasure is a freedom song	C
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And I fain would have you sing it with fullness of heart yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing	B
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Some of your youth seek pleasure as if it were all and they are judged and rebuked	J
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I would not judge nor rebuke them I would have them seek	K
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For they shall find pleasure but not her alone	L
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Seven are her sisters and the least of them is more beautiful than pleasure	A
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Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure	A
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And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness	M
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But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement	J
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They should remember their pleasures with gratitude as they would the harvest of a summer	A
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Yet if it comforts them to regret let them be comforted	J
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And there are among you those who are neither young to seek nor old to remember	A
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And in their fear of seeking and remembering they shun all pleasures lest they neglect the spirit or offend against it	J
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But even in their foregoing is their pleasure	A
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And thus they too find a treasure though they dig for roots with quivering hands	N
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But tell me who is he that can offend the spirit	J
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Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night or the firefly the stars	O
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And shall your flame or your smoke burden the wind	J
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Think you the spirit is a still pool which you can trouble with a staff	P
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Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being	B
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Who knows but that which seems omitted today waits for tomorrow	Q
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Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will not be deceived	J
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And your body is the harp of your soul	R
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And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds	S
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And now you ask in your heart How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good	J
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Go to your fields and your gardens and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower	A
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But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee	T
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For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life	U
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And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love	V
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And to both bee and flower the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy	T
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People of Orphalese be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees	W

Khalil Gibran

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