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And now it was evening	A
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And Almitra the seeress said Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit that has spoken	B
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And he answered Was it I who spoke Was I not also a listener	C
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Then he descended the steps of the Temple and all the people followed him And he reached his ship and stood upon the deck	D
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And facing the people again he raised his voice and said	E
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People of Orphalese the wind bids me leave you	F
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Less hasty am I than the wind yet I must go	G
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We wanderers ever seeking the lonelier way begin no day where we have ended another day and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us	H
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Even while the earth sleeps we travel	I
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We are the seeds of the tenacious plant and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered	J
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Brief were my days among you and briefer still the words I have spoken	B
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But should my voice fade in your ears and my love vanish in your memory then I will come again	K
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And with a richer heart and lips more yielding to the spirit will I speak	L
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Yea I shall return with the tide	M
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And though death may hide me and the greater silence enfold me yet again will I seek your understanding	A
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And not in vain will I seek	L
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If aught I have said is truth that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice and in words more kin to your thoughts	N
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I go with the wind people of Orphalese but not down into emptiness	H
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And if this day is not a fulfillment of your needs and my love then let it be a promise till another day Know therefore that from the greater silence I shall return	O
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The mist that drifts away at dawn leaving but dew in the fields shall rise and gather into a cloud and then fall down in rain	P
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And not unlike the mist have I been	Q
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In the stillness of the night I have walked in your streets and my spirit has entered your houses	R
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And your heart beats were in my heart and your breath was upon my face and I knew you all	S
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Ay I knew your joy and your pain and in your sleep your dreams were my dreams	T
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And oftentimes I was among you a lake among the mountains	U
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I mirrored the summits in you and the bending slopes and even the passing flocks of your thoughts and your desires	V
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And to my silence came the laughter of your children in streams and the longing of your youths in rivers	V
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And when they reached my depth the streams and the rivers ceased not yet to sing	A
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But sweeter still than laughter and greater than longing came to me	W
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It was boundless in you	F
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The vast man in whom you are all but cells and sinews	V
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He in whose chant all your singing is but a soundless throbbing	A
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It is in the vast man that you are vast	X
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And in beholding him that I beheld you and loved you	F
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For what distances can love reach that are not in that vast sphere	Y
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What visions what expectations and what presumptions can outsoar that flight	Z
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Like a giant oak tree covered with apple blossoms is the vast man in you	F
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His mind binds you to the earth his fragrance lifts you into space and in his durability you are deathless	V
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You have been told that even like a chain you are as weak as your weakest link	A2
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This is but half the truth You are also as strong as your strongest link	A2
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To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam	B2
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To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistency	V
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Ay you are like an ocean	B
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And though heavy grounded ships await the tide upon your shores yet even like an ocean you cannot hasten your tides	V
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And like the seasons you are also	V
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And though in your winter you deny your spring	A
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Yet spring reposing within you smiles in her drowsiness and is not offended	C2
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Think not I say these things in order that you may say the one to the other He praised us well He saw but the good in us	V
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I only speak to you in words of that which you yourselves know in thought	D2
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And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge	E2
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Your thoughts and my words are waves from a sealed memory that keeps records of our yesterdays	V
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And of the ancient days when the earth knew not us nor herself	F2
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And of nights when earth was upwrought with confusion	B
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Wise men have come to you to give you of their wisdom I came to take of your wisdom	G2
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And behold I have found that which is greater than wisdom	G2
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It is a flame spirit in you ever gathering more of itself	F2
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While you heedless of its expansion bewail the withering of your days	V
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It is life in quest of life in bodies that fear the grave	H2
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There are no graves here	I2
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These mountains and plains are a cradle and a stepping stone	J2
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Whenever you pass by the field where you have laid your ancestors look well thereupon and you shall see yourselves and your children dancing hand in hand	K2
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Verily you often make merry without knowing	A
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Others have come to you to whom for golden promises made unto your faith you have given but riches and power and glory	V
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Less than a promise have I given and yet more generous have you been to me	V
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You have given me deeper thirsting after life	L2
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Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain	B
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And in this lies my honour and my reward	M2
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That whenever I come to the fountain to drink I find the living water itself thirsty	V
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And it drinks me while I drink it	N2
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Some of you have deemed me proud and over shy to receive gifts	V
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To proud indeed am I to receive wages but not gifts	V
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And though I have eaten berries among the hill when you would have had me sit at your board	M2
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And slept in the portico of the temple where you would gladly have sheltered me	V
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Yet was it not your loving mindfulness of my days and my nights that made food sweet to my mouth and girdled my sleep with visions	V
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For this I bless you most	O2
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You give much and know not that you give at all	S
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Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone	J2
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And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse	V
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And some of you have called me aloof and drunk with my own aloneness	V
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And you have said He holds council with the trees of the forest but not with men	K
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He sits alone on hill tops and looks down upon our city	V
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True it is that I have climbed the hills and walked in remote places	V
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How could I have seen you save from a great height or a great distance	V
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How can one be indeed near unless he be far	P2
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And others among you called unto me not in words and they said	E
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Stranger stranger lover of unreachable heights why dwell you among the summits where eagles build their nests	V
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Why seek you the unattainable	I
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What storms would you trap in your net	Q2
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And what vaporous birds do you hunt in the sky	R2
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Come and be one of us	V
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Descend and appease your hunger with our bread and quench your thirst with our wine	S2
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In the solitude of their souls they said these things	V
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But were their solitude deeper they would have known that I sought but the secret of your joy and your pain	P
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And I hunted only your larger selves that walk the sky	R2
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But the hunter was also the hunted	C2
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For many of my arrows left my bow only to seek my own breast	T2
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And the flier was also the creeper	P2
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For when my wings were spread in the sun their shadow upon the earth was a turtle	I
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And I the believer was also the doubter	P2
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For often have I put my finger in my own wound that I might have the greater belief in you and the greater knowledge of you	F
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And it is with this belief and this knowledge that I say	V
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You are not enclosed within your bodies nor confined to houses or fields	V
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That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind	U2
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It is not a thing that cr	P2