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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: own shape." She answered, "Whether you live or die, or are
made different, I am your Mother."'
'True,' said Puck. 'The Old Ones themselves cannot change
men's mothers even if they would.'
'Let us thank the Old Ones! I spoke to my Maiden, the Priestess
who waited for me at the Dew-ponds. She promised fine things
too.' The man laughed. 'I went away to that place where I had
seen the magician with the knife. I lay out two days on the short
grass before I ventured among the Trees. I felt my way before me
with a stick. I was afraid of the terrible talking Trees. I was afraid
of the ghosts in the branches; of the soft ground underfoot; of the
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