Canticle
A POEM
For all we love to know
He gives us signs
and asks that we behold
the rest in faith.
He may prolong our wonder
or in a twinkling grant that we change eyes
for all we know…
For all we know of love
we learn to hope
and ask that he refine
these kindling hearts.
He may consume our passion
yet of His grace He pledges to provide
for all we love…
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My very breath seems evidence of You.
My pulse throbs with a Spirit not…
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Borne up by priestly hands beyond the dark
The clean oblation of the harvest moon
…
Twentieth-Century Adam and Eve
As aliens yearn
For the native land.
We still return
To the garden —
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