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Buddha & the Gospel of Buddhism
And with this contrasts the futile longing of man for an
eternity of happiness:
You do obey your months and times, but I
Would have it ever Spring:
My fate would know no Winter, never die,
Nor think of such a thing.
0 that I could my bed of earth but view
And smile, and look as cheerfully as you !
And so it is that the Sermon of the Woods should teach
us spontaneity of action, to fall in with the natural order
of the world, neither apathetic nor rebellious, but possess-
ing our souls in patience.
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And with this contrasts the futile longing of man for an
eternity of happiness:
You do obey your months and times, but I
Would have it ever Spring:
My fate would know no Winter, never die,
Nor think of such a thing.
0 that I could my bed of earth but view
And smile, and look as cheerfully as you !
And so it is that the Sermon of the Woods should teach
us spontaneity of action, to fall in with the natural order
of the world, neither apathetic nor rebellious, but possess-
ing our souls in patience.
258