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That which was the darkness in the darkness hidden, that which was joy enrobed in sorrow's somber garb calls,
We who make merry in this hostelry of life, return the robe of earth to him who will another body make, for some soul to upward take, upon its homeward way.
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The only thing of profit here to take is the Good from all things, which causes hurt to none.
Those who otherwise partake, the law pronounces invalid, which like the dust must to the dust descend.
Yet in that dust the golden germ is found, which like a thought, a seed brought forth that ripened fruit may bear.
So comes forth again the breath, the birth, the living and the end.