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,,---\^%§# A Student At The Charcoal Guild... His #§%^\---,,
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,-~\^%§### Successful Student ###§%^\~-,
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,,,,--\^§# But One Day He Fell Down Into A Crystal #§^\--,,,,
,-~\^%§### Cavern. It Was Deep In The Mountain, A ###§%^\~-,
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,-~\^%§### Inlet For Both Light And Falling ###§%^\~-,
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,-~\^%§### In The Fall, The Quartz Sliced Off The ###§%^\~-,
,,,,,-\^%# Threads In His Eyes, Opening Them For #%^\-,,,,,
,-~\^%§### The First Time. Before Him, The ###§%^\~-,
,-~\^%§### Crystals Mirrored And Refracted The One ###§%^\~-,
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,,,,,~^§## And He Was Struck Down With Awe ##§^~,,,,,
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,-~\^%§### But Also With Shame, Because His Eyes ###§%^\~-,
,-~\^%§### Had Seen. Hurriedly, He Used Thread ###§%^\~-,
,-~\^%§### From His Robe To Sew Them Back ###§%^\~-,
,-~\^%§### Together, And When Help Came He Did Not ###§%^\~-,
,-~\^%§### Tell Of His Transgression. ###§%^\~-,
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,-~\^%§### For Years He Studied At The Guild. He ###§%^\~-,
,-~\^%%%%§ Became A Master, And Then A Pilgrim. §%%%%^\~-,
,-~\^%%%## Yet The Image From The Cave Never Left ##%%%^\~-,
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,-~\^%§### Edge Of The World He Opened His Eyes ###§%^\~-,
,-~\^%§### For A Second Time, Stars Had Hatched In ###§%^\~-,
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