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Through the sadness of all things I hear the crooning of the Eternal Mother.
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I came to your shore as a stranger,I lived in your house as a guest,I leave your door as a friend,my earth.
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Let my thoughts come to you,when I am gone,like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
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Light in my heart the evening star of rest and then let the night whisper to me of love.
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I am a child in the dark.I stretch my hands through the coverlet of night for thee,Mother.
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The day of work is done.Hide my face in your arms,Mother.
Let me dream.
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The lamp of meeting burns long;it goes out in a moment at the parting.
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One word keep for me in thy silence,O World,when I am dead,“I have loved.”
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We live in this world when we love it.
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Let the dead have the immortality of fame,but the living the immortality of love.
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I have seen thee as the half-awakened child sees his mother in the dusk of the dawn and then smiles and sleeps again.
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I shall die again and again to know that life is inexhaustible.
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While I was passing with the crowd in the road I saw thy smile from the balcony and I sang and forgot all noise.
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Love is life in its fullness like the cup with its wine.
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They light their own lamps and sing their own words in their temples.But the birds sing thy name in thine own morning light—for thy name is joy.
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Lead me in the center of thy silence to fill my heart with songs.
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Let them live who choose in their own hissing world of fireworks.My heart longs for thy stars,my God.
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Love's pain sang round my life like the unplumbed sea,and love's joy sang like birds in its flowering groves.
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Put out the lamp when thou wishest.I shall know thy darkness and shall love it.
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When I stand before thee at the day's end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.