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Coming events their shadows cast, on this all have agreed;
In an endless procession that Mirror reflects the acts, the thoughts, the deeds,
Oh, happy the man who has led a good life, who fears not in that Mirror to gaze,
For he sees that virtue reward hath won, and that the wage of sin is death.
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Some in this life would have you believe that this fate you cannot evade, for all embody here again, and thus by the law of birth outrun the actions of past lives?
Friends, you're reasoning in quicksands which in the end engulf; last night no more returns to earth though followed by countless suns;
Neither the soul once freed from clay to a body of clay returns, nor doth the Spirit inhabit again this cast off garment of earth.