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 / will be like the hermit on the hill,

Like duckweed gathered on the stream?

And when emotions crowd upon me,

I will leave them to the harmonies of heaven?

xi. SET FREE.

"Joying in flowers without let t Breathing the empyrean, Through TAO reverting to ether., And there to be wildly free, Wide-spreading as the wind of heaven^ Lofty as the peaks of ocean, Filled with a spiritual strength, All creation by my side, Before me the sun, moon, and stars, The phoenix following behind, In the morning I whip up my leviathans And wash my feet in Fusang." *

xii. CONSERVATION.

44 Without a word writ down, All wit may be attained. If words do not affect the speaker, They seem inadequate to sorrow? Herein is the First Cause, With which we sink or rise, As wine in the strainer mounts high, As cold turns back the season of flowers. The wide-spreading dust-motes in the air, The sudden spray-bubbles of ocean, Shallow, deep, collected, scattered, You grasp ten thousand, and secure one!*

xiii. ANIMAL SPIRITS.

M That they might come back unceasingly^ That they might be ever with us/

1 A creature of chance, following the doctrine of Inaction. 1 Variously identified with Saghalien, Mexico, and Japan.

Primum ipsi tibi. . ..
 * ... Si vis me flere dolendum est

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