The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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