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WHEN WHAT IS to happen comes to pass --
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Which is bound to happen undoubtedly --
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Degrading (some) and exalting (others);
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When the earth is shaken up convulsively,
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The mountains bruised and crushed,
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Turned to dust, floating in the air,
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You will become three categories:
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Those of the right hand -- how (happy) will be those of the right hand!
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Then those of the left hand -- how (unhappy) will be those of the left hand!
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Then the foremost, how pre-excellent,
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In gardens of tranquility;
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A number of the earlier peoples,
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And a few of later ages,
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On couches wrought of gold,
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Reclining face to face.
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Youths of never-ending bloom will pass round to them
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Cups and decanters, beakers full of sparkling wine,
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Unheady, uninebriating;
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And such fruits as they fancy,
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Bird meats that they relish,
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And companions with big beautiful eyes
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Like pearls within their shells,
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As recompense for all they had done.
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They will hear no nonsense there or talk of sin,
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Other than "Peace, peace" the salutation.
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As for those of the right hand -- how (happy) those of the right hand --
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They will be in (the shade) of thornless lote
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And acacia covered with heaps of bloom,
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