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Subject: Re: Stranger in a Strange Land
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Date: Wed, 7-Dec-83 11:27:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  7 11:27:24 1983
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		      BRAHMA

	If the red slayer think he slays,
	  Or if the slain think he is slain,
	They know not well the subtle ways
	  I keep, and pass, and turn again.

	Far or forgotten to me is near;
	  Shadow and sunlight are the same;
	The vanished gods to me appear;
	  And one to me are shame and fame.

	They reckon ill who leave me out;
	  When me they fly, I am the wings;
	I am the doubter and the doubt,
	  And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

	The strong gods pine for my abode,
	  And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
	But thou, meek lover of the good!
	  Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.

			-- Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Prentiss Riddle
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