But what of it?
What is life but loss, loss upon loss, till life itself be lost?
But in death we may find all the things that we have lost.

So your father taught, Macumazahn, and there was wisdom in his gentleness.

Ou! I do not believe in death; it is change, that is all, Macumazahn.

Look now, the rain falls, the drops of rain that were one water in the clouds fall side by side.

They sink into the ground; presently the sun will come out, the earth will be dry, the drops will be gone.