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The Song of Immortality Friends! I want to tell you something: I am going. I have received an invitation from my friends and I am departing anon. Having read that invitation beckoning me with the luminous flash of a sparkling smile, my fervid heart refuses to stay here any longer. I must depart. How can I continue to stay on here, leaving my heart yonder ? So my friends! At the time of my departure, sing gentle tunes, dance with glee, sprinkle the showers of affection, pour forth the song of immortality in your dulcet voice and blow the trumpets of eternal rapture! As the kite plying through the whole firmament returns as the evening declines to her young, even so am I treading to meet my beloved comrades.
Buoyant is my departure and chastened my inner being by hallowed deeds. Benign is my path! That path, people in their ignorance may deem unhallowed, but in reality it is not unhallowed. Implicitly benign it is, on the contrary!
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