<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">The Undertaking</font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><font color="#010101" class=""><br class="">The darkness lifts, imagine, in your lifetime.<br class="">There you are - cased in clean bark you drift<br class="">through weaving rushes, fields flooded with cotton.<br class="">You are free. The river films with lilies,<br class="">shrubs appear, shoots thicken into palm. And now<br class="">all fear gives away: the light<br class="">looks after you, you feel the waves' goodwill<br class="">as arms widen over the water; Love,<br class=""><br class="">the key is turned. Extend yourself -<br class="">it is the Nile, the sun is shining,<br class="">everywhere you turn is luck.</font></div></div><div class=""><font color="#010101" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><font color="#010101" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Louise Glück</font></div></div></body></html>