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"Way-making being empty, You make use of it But do not fill it up. So abysmally deep - It seems the predecessor of everything that is happening (wanwu). It blunts the sharp edges And untangles the knots; It softens (he) the glare And brings things together on the same track. So cavernously deep - It only seems to persist. I do not know whose progeny it is; It prefigures the ancestral gods."