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Of course they embalm’d you! Yet not so sweet
Were aloes and nard, as the youthful glow
Which Amenti stole when the small dark feet
Wearied of treading our world below.

— Edwin Arnold

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Potiphar's Wife and Other Poems (1895)

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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.

The Light of Asia (1879)

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

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