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Bereavement

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pbmus

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Sat Dec 21, 2019, 09:26 PM Dec 2019

Recently lost a lovely friend...In Loving Memories [View all]

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As every blossom fades,
and all youth sinks into old age,
so every life’s design, each flower of wisdom,
attains it’s prime and cannot last forever

The heart must submit itself courageously
to life’s call without a hint of grief,
a magic dwells in each beginning,
protecting us, telling us how to live

High purposed we shall traverse
realm on realm,
cleaving to none as to a home,
the world of spirit wishes not to fetter us
But raise us higher, step by step.
scarce in some safe accustomed sphere of life
have we establish a house , then we grow lax;
only he who is ready to journey forth
can throw old habits off

Maybe death’s hour too will send
us out new-born
towards undreamed lands

Maybe life’s call to us will never find an end
Courage my heart, take leave and fare thee well

Hermann Hesse


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