““A King Who Keeps To Himself Dwells" A king who keeps to himself dwells in a humble house with his sole servant. While his body-man eats, drinks, feels fever and chills, and plucks gray hairs from his head, his master knows nothing of thirst or hunger, illness or age. They set out together, but whether fortune or misfortune awaits them on the world’s wide road depends on the servant’s whim, faithful or unfaithful to his king. Along the way, a kinswoman, mother and sister to them both, offers them a room, a mean, but the soon press on, until the old servant can go no farther. He stumbles, falls, and cannot rise again. Then the king, without a glance backward, continues on to a country we shall all come to know. Whoever knows this pair, say their names. (and the answer is body and soul)””
