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Great.
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"Your fear of death is but the
trembling of the shepherd...
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when he stands before the king...
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whose hand is to be laid
upon him in honor.
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Is the shepherd not joyful
beneath his trembling...
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that he should wear
the mark of the king?
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Yet is he not more mindful
of his trembling?
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For what is it to die
but to stand naked in the wind...
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and to melt into the sun?
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And what is it to cease breathing...
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but to free the breath
from its restless tides...
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that it may rise and expand
and see God unencumbered?
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Only when you drink from the river
of silence shall you indeed sing.
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And when you have reached
the mountaintop...
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then you shall begin to climb.
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And when the earth shall
claim your limbs...
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then shall you truly dance."