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The Scent of Cedars.
By Philipp
Weigl.
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Philipp Weigl
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Maybe one must end the
war within.
Each must first find peace within the heart.
Maybe one ought neither lose nor win,
Ought not presume to tell the two apart.
Remember that this means that one's own hate
Is something one no longer needs to fight.
A hatred of one's hatred is a state
Like any other in the way of light.
Do, then, in yourself just leave the field,
Abandoning your saber and your shield,
Yielding the long struggle to be
right.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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