Today's Stichomancy for Howard Stern

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson:

gown; And the ringers rang with a will, and he gave the ringers a crown. But the first that ever I bare was dead before he was born, Shadow and shine is life, little Annie, flower and thorn.

XVI. That was the first time, too, that ever I thought of death. There lay the sweet little body that never had drawn