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Out of the House of Childhood
Selected by Paul Marshall
To take by leaving, to hold by letting go.
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When at last Death comes, then all of Life shall be to us as the house of our childhood-
For the first time we shall really possess it.
But who is ready to die to life now, he even now possesses it