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to. Not otherwise may ye reach unto the Smooth Point.

11. Nor is it fitting fur the cobbler to plate of the Royal matter. 0 cobbler! mend me thiSIhoe, that I may walk. 0 king! if I be thy son, let us spuk of the Embassy to the King thy Brother.

1:. Then was there silence. Speech had done with us awhile.

There is A light so strenuous that it is not perceived as light.

13. Wall”: bone is not so sharp as steel; yet it pieroeth the body more subtly.

14,. Even as evil kisses cornipt the blood, so do my words devour the spirit of mm.

15. I breathe, and there is infinite dis-ease in the spirit.

x& As an acid fits into steel, as a when that utterly corrupts the body; so am I unto the spirit of man.

I7. I shall not rest until I have dissolved it Ill.

18. So also the light that is khsorbed. One absorbs little, and is called White and glistenv ing; one absorbs all and is tailed black.

It). Thereiore, O my darling, art than black.

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