What Shall I Fear

"¹If I my greatest foe can face
²With nary a jump nor quake
³What then shall I fear?
⁴If I into the fray can march
⁵With naught a thought for me
⁶Who then my fears relieve but me?"
-Forënso 8:1-6
Can you face somebody you don't like? If so, you have nothing to fear, as an extension of Zupëtro's line: "Help yourself; you will be helped" (6:12). Forënso is saying not specifically these two things, but using them, as he so frequently does, as a metaphor for your personal greatest fear, whatever it may be. In my case, death by lack of sleep. Forënso wants to make it clear that if you can stand up to it, you aren't afraid of anything; nothing can stop you. Obviously I have only partially destroyed my fear. Good night! Emänyo