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BEHOLD how this drop of
sea-water
Has taken so many forms and names;
It has existed as mist, cloud, rain, dew, and mud,
Then plant, animal, and perfect man;
And yet it was a drop of water
From which these things appeared.
Even so this universe of reason, soul, heavens, and bodies,
Was but a drop of water in its beginning and ending.
. . . When a wave strikes
it, the world vanishes;
And when the appointed time comes to heaven and stars,
Their being is lost in not being.