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After you have enriched your soul / To the highest point, / With books, thought, suffering, the understanding of many personalities, / The power to interpret glances, silences, / The pauses in momentous transformations, / The genius of divination and prophecy;
So that you feel able at times to hold the world / In the hollow of your hand;
Then, if, by the crowding of so many powers / Into the compass of your soul, / Your soul takes fire, / And in the conflagration of your soul / The evil of the world is lighted up and made clear --
Be thankful if in that hour of supreme vision / Life does not fiddle.