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Christening Song
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46 Christening Song In this forest nothing lives, not even the forest. Its sky is sublimely colorless. The old man and woman Toiling up a rocky slope to the crest of a minor mountain are insensible to whether clouds occlude the sun Or whether there simply is no sun, only diffuse sourceless light. And they left that region behind them and ascended To the great æons of the rulers and came before their veils and their gates, shining most exceedingly. Beyond this border, another life is constantly unconcealed. ...