Sonnets to Orpheus, Part One, XXII -- Rainer Rilke

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Sonnets to Orpheus, Part One, XXII

We set the pace.But this press of time --take it as a little thingnext to what endures.

All this hurryingsoon will be over.Only when we tarrydo we touch the holy.

Young ones, don't waste your courageracing so fast,flying so high.

See how all things are at rest --darkness and morning light,blossom and book.

~ Rainer Rilke ~

(In Praise of Mortality, translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)

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