The Grave-Digger

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BY KAHLIL GIBRAN


Once, as I was burying one of my dead selves, the grave-digger came by and said to me, “Of all those who come here to bury, you alone I like.”
 
Said I, “You please me exceedingly, but why do you like me?”
 
“Because,” said he, “They come weeping and go weeping—you only come laughing and go laughing.”

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