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<P><B><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="garamond">On Death</FONT></B>
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<P><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="garamond"> Than Almitra spoke, saying, "We would ask now of Death."<BR>
And he said:<BR>
You would know the secret of death.<BR>
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?<BR>
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.<BR>
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.<BR>
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.<BR>
In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;<BR>
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.<BR>
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.<BR>
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.<BR>
Is the sheered not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?<BR>
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?<BR>
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?<BR>
And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?<BR>
Only when you drink form the river of silence shall you indeed sing.<BR>
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.<BR>
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">~Kahlil Gibran</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Lebanese poet, artist and philosopher</FONT>
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