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with me, my friend. You have to stay behind
where you are, where you and I have lived
together for so long, sharing good and evil. You
must not mourn for me, you must forget me as
everybody else will forget me, for such is the
law of life. Do not worry, I shall be all right
and so will you. Everything that could be done
for your happiness has been done. You will
live on in your old familiar surroundings where
friendly people will look after you with the same
loving care that I did. You will have your
ample meal set before you every day as the bells
ring mezzogiorno, and your succulent bones
twice a week as before. The large garden where
you used to romp is still yours, and even should
you forget the law and start chasing a poaching
cat under the olive trees I shall continue from
where I am, to turn my blind eye on the chase,
closing the good one as I used to do for
friendship’s sake. Then when your limbs have grown
stiff and your eyes dim you will rest for good
under the antique marble column in the cypress
grove by the old tower at the side of your
comrades who have gone there before you. And when
all is said, who knows if we shall not meet again?
Great or small our chances are the same.”
“Do not go away, stay with me or take me
with you,” pleaded the faithful eyes.
“I am going to a land I know nothing about.
I do not know what will happen to me there,
and still less do I know what would happen to
you, if you came with me. I have read strange
tales about this land, but they are only tales,
nobody who went there has ever returned to
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