Rudyard Kipling

“ Their beds are made on the Lap of Time and they lie down and sleep.
They are forgiven as they forgive all those old wounds that bleed.
They shut their eyes from their worshippers; they sleep till the world has need. ”

“ They will come back — come back again — as long as the red Earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would squander souls?
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