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The omnipresent Virtue will take shape
According only to the Tao.
The Tao Themselves are like some thing
Seen in a dream, elusive, evading one.
In Them are images, elusive, evading one.
In Them are things like shadows in twilight.
In Them are Essences, subtle but real,
Embedded in Truth.

From of old until now,
Under Names without end,
The First, the Beginning is seen.
How do I know the beginning of all,
What Their nature may be?
By these!