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The Final Choice
To live for self or for the Universe,—This is my choice, supreme for good or ill:
To live for self till self becomes a curse,
Or live in oneness with the world's one will:
To live for self, with ever-narrowing scope,
Till, one by one, into its vortex fall,
Drawn slowly downwards, love and faith and hope;—
To live for self till self becomes my all:—
This—or to die to self and live again,
Breathing an ampler life with every breath;
Transmuting toil to triumph, loss to gain;
Wresting life's secret from the deeps of death:—
This is my choice—to live for self alone,
Or, losing self, to make all life my own.
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