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4. ASSURANCE

Even if they shall laugh at you and make fun,

you shall lie there as Lazarus did,

lie still and silent before the heavens—

even then shall you not be as Lazarus.

Alas, it is good to be likened

unto the black earth from the garden,

to the many-colored dust from the road,

to the cry of the smallest child, forgotten,

left behind in the fields . . .

no other thing do they ask of you.