\{\{\% verse \%\}\}People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. --- Kahlil Gibran\{\{\% /verse \%\}\}

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\subsection{Dramatis Personae}\label{dramatis-personae}}

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\subsubsection{The Ode clade}\label{the-ode-clade}}

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\item[Your Humble Narrator]
Dear The Wheat And Rye Under The Stars
\item[The Woman]
To Pray For The End Of Endings
\item[Her Friend]
I Must Show No Hesitation When Speaking My Name
\item[Her Therapist]
Where I May Ever Dream
\item[Her Cocladist]
Should We Rejoice In The End Of Endings
\item[The Oneirotect]
Which Offers Heat And Warmth In Fire
\item[The Instance Artist]
Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled
\item[The Poet]
Where It Watches the Slow Hours Progress
\item[The Musician]
Beholden To The Heat Of The Lamps
\item[The Child]
And We Are The Motes In The Stage-Lights
\item[The Narrator's Friend]
Time Is A Finger Pointing At Itself
\item[The Blue Fairy]
I Remember The Rattle Of Dry Grass
\end{description}

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\subsubsection{Others}\label{others}}

\begin{description}
\tightlist
\item[Her Lover]
Farai
\item[The Dog]
Scout Among Weird Skunks With Good Kettlecorn
\item[His Elder]
Tomash
\item[The Rabbit-Chaser]
\_\_\_\_\_ (called ``Scout Chasing Rabbits'')
\end{description}

And, of course, you, my dear, \emph{dear} reader.