[MD] The Madman: The Great Longing

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The Madman:   The Great Longing     by Kahlil Gibran

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea.

We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together 
is deep and strong and strange. Nay, it is deeper than my sister's 
depth and stronger than my brother's strength, and stranger than the 
strangeness of my madness.

Aeons upon aeons have passed since the first grey dawn made us 
visible to one another; and though we have seen the birth and the 
fulness and the death of many worlds, we are still eager and young.

We are young and eager and yet we are mateless and unvisited, and 
though we lie in unbroken half embrace, we are uncomforted. And what 
comfort is there for controlled desire and unspent passion? Whence 
shall come the flaming god to warm my sister's bed? And what 
she-torrent shall quench my brother's fire? And who is the woman that 
shall command my heart?

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Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We 
three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is 
deep and strong and strange.