Human, All Too Human

Among Friends

An Epilogue

1

Fine, with one another silent,
Finer, with one another laughing
Under heaven`s silky cloth
Leaning over books and moss
With friends lightly, loudly laughing
Each one showing white teeth shining.

If I did well, let us be silent,
If I did badly, let us laugh
And do it bad again by half,
More badly done, more badly laugh,
Until the grave, when down we climb

Friends! Well! What do you say?
Amen! Until we meet again!

2

Don`t excuse it! Don`t forgive!
You happy, heart-free people, give
This unreasonable book of mine
Ear and heart and sheltering!
Truly, friends, my own unreason
Did not grow to earn a curse!

What I find, what I am seeking
Was that ever in a book?
Honor one from the fools` legion!
Learn from out of this fool`s book
How reason can be brought -"to reason"!

So then, friends, what do you say?
Amen! Until we meet again.

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