If you ask me about the regular method
Of guarding the life, my counter-question
Is very simple: 'How can you hold one thing
Fast enough in your embrace for a long time?'
What's more, 'Can you keep from losing it?
Can you know the lucky and unlucky signs
Without having recourse to divining methods
Or astrological modes and templates?
Can you afford to rest where you ought to rest?
Can you stop when you have got enough?
Can you give over thinking of other men
And find what you want in yourself?
Can you flee from the allurements of desire?
Can you maintain an entire simplicity?
Can you become a little child again
At your advanced age of advantaging? . .'
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