Second Best
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(For those who treasure Plato's Phaedo)
We see the living and the dead,
not all with fear, not all with dread.
Some impassionedly we plead
to leave our presence, or to proceed
to engage the lives we lead.
Socrates chuckled, approaching death,
"Philosophers know well its breath,
as they draw the air of living.
For them there is no misgiving.
From neither one need any fear,
as either one draws to us near.
Whether awaits a bliss or hell,
face them both with a life lived well."
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