The Grave-Digger
Once, as I was burying one of my dead selves, the grave-digger cameby and said to me, "Of all those who come here to bury, you aloneI like."
Said I, "You please me exceedingly, but why do you like me?"
"Because," said he, "They come weeping and go weeping--you onlycome laughing and go laughing."
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Cite as: Kahlil Gibran, The Grave-Digger, in The Madman: His Parables and Poems (1918), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #5616, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/gibran-madman/the-grave-digger.html, id L27300.
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