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All that was gathered,
assimilated;
the pains I suffered in this body
may become the powers I wield in the next;
lessons of mistakes transmuted into prudence,
changing suffering into endurance.
The riddle of love and hate,
the laws that govern, that cannot be broken,
manifest slowly one by one.
After each brief plunge
a diver rises from the sea with pearls
drawn from the oyster-bed.
The dawn waits on the horizon as the glorious sun
squanders his wealth on the crests of waves
 coming unbroken
to the lap of the shores