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33.I shall go with the rest,
We cannot be stopped at a given point—that is no
satisfaction,
To show us a good thing, or a few good things, for a
space of time—that is no satisfaction,
We must have the indestructible breed of the best,
regardless of time.

34.If otherwise, all these things came but to ashes of
dung,
If maggots and rats ended us, then alarm! for we are
betrayed!
Then indeed suspicion of death.

35.Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death, I
should die now,
Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited
toward annihilation?

36.Pleasantly and well-suited I walk,
Whither I walk I cannot define, but I know it is good,
The whole universe indicates that it is good,
The past and the present indicate that it is good.

37.How beautiful and perfect are the animals! How
perfect is my Soul!
How perfect the earth, and the minutest tiling upon
it!
What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad
is just as perfect,
The vegetables and minerals are all perfect, and the
imponderable fluids are perfect;
Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and
slowly and surely they yet pass on.