The means that do the ends of life defeat, are: drink! fornication and other unlawful acts committed by the flesh, gambling and untruth.
No threats of hell, no hope of heaven, can lift the cloud that doth enshroud a defiled earthly temple.
Such flowers as these forever die, uselessness has no place in creation's fertile fields.
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Oft has the way on earth been blazed, that all the path might see and rightly follow.
Sages the [32]pateran have placed at every crossroad.
And though so many have pushed those darkened doors aside, none have returned of that way here to tell!
Which to discover, all for themselves must tread.
[32] Pateran means a leaf which travelers used to place at the cross roads to show the way to their followers.