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  [begin leaf 1 recto] In the course of the winding path through the grass + And when once spirits go they went far enough to see 
  the happiness beyond,
That is was the reason no wit or temptation can ever could 
  draw lure them back, to the body.
[cut away] grass is ^And now it it the grass seems to me the dark, uncropped uncut hair of graves: Tenderly will I touch use you, tressy grass, It may be you effuse transpire from the breasts of young men— It may be if I had known them I would have loved them. You may be sprout from dead babes infants ^young little ones taken soon out of their 
  mothers' laps,
And now you yourselves rest in are the mothers' laps.
How can you be so dark? Are you not from the white ^white blanched white heads of the old mothers of old mothers? Are you not from the colorless beards of old men? Are no you not from pale red tongues and under the faint red roofs of mouths? O, now I know what you mean! You do not come out of tongues and the roofs of mouths for nothing You would tell whisper me what is done to the young men, And to the old men and the mothers   [begin leaf 1 verso]   [begin leaf 2 recto] And the [cut away] ^[cut away] taken soon out of their laps— Then even the cinders they left behind them, and than the parings cinders and soiled cl rags they dropped as they went left us, Even they continue on, and become new live fire, and 
  plentiful beautiful clothing.
And that when once they soul ^spirit soul goes far enough into to see the happiness beyond, And That is the reason why no art or cunning can wit or temptation could ever lures it them back to the ^cold flesh.— to the body body flesh. body. Yet I cannot say, any more than you, their spirits went far enough what has become 
  of the young ^and old men,
Nor what has become of the women and children Only I am sure positive enough they are all alive and well 
  somewhere.
Because this grass tells me there is no such thing 
  as death,
Or if ever there was, it stood at the beginning preceded all, primitive 
  and does not wait at the end,
And ceased the moment the first live thing began. And that nothing recedes, ^collapses, but all goes onward and outward And that to die is not what what you one supposeds.—
Have you supposed it good to be born? Have I hasten to inform tell you it is just as good to die, [illegible] and I know it; I know it For I take my death with the dying, And my birth with the new-washed babe [cut away]
  [begin leaf 2 verso]
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