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The sunbeams dropped
Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,
Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dun,
As if the very Day paused and grew Eve.

— Edwin Arnold Light of Asia (1879)

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Birthless and deathless and changeless remainaineth the spirit forever;
Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

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Making all futures fruits of all the pasts.

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Pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

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Pity and need
Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood.

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