Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
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Gustav Klimt Kiss painting
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He hurled his lightsaber away. "Never! Never will I turn to the dark side!You have failed, Palpatine. I am a Jedi, as my father was before me." The Emperor's glee turned to a sullen rage. "So be it, Jedi. If you will not beturned, you will be destroyed." Palpatine raised his spidery arms toward Luke: blinding white bolts of energycoruscated from his fingers, shot across the room like sorcerous lightning, and torethrough the boy's insides, looking for ground. The young Jedi was at onceconfounded and in agony—he'd never heard of such a power, such a corruption of theForce, let alone experienced it. But if it was Force-generated, it could be Force-repelled. Luke raised his armsto deflect the bolts. Initially, he was successful—the lightning rebounded from histouch, harmlessly into the walls. Soon, though, the shocks came with such speedand power, they coursed over and into him, and he could only shrink before them,convulsed with pain, his knees buckling, his powers at ebb.