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Rilke has this beautiful
poem called "Spanish Trilogy"

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in which he does that
thing that so many of us

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love and hate Rilke for
where he romanticizes

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the Spanish shepherd.

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And he says, a god entering
the shepherd's form would not

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be diminished.

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I'm paraphrasing.

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And he ends the poem with
talking about the shepherd's

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lantern, and says
something like,

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its lights made death
more easily find its way.

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And glory is the concept
in the Gospel of John.

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It's supposed to be the moment
at which Jesus's divinity

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and identity as a
Messiah is beyond doubt.

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I think it's connected to
the Resurrection of Lazarus.

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And, of course, he goes
and resurrects Lazarus,

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and, of course, there's doubt.

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And he keeps asking in
several of the Gospels,

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what do the people say about me?

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He needs to know that
his experience, his acts,

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line up with a story
being told about him.

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It's fascinating.

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"My Daughter Providence."

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Lamp in the night, still
shepherds, each thing poised.

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Whole topography poised, bud,
leaf, and slipping, husk,

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bark poised.

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Rilke's form courts death all
down the yellow perpetual fire

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hills of Spain or California.

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Try to remember you can
always just sit down,

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no matter the habits
or confusions.

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We can bring you to the
coast cypresses one day.

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Down there, the jellyfish
are thinking hard about you.

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Animal, oyster, roe, beef.

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Wrapped in a warm
feeling, fearing you.

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Glory needs to know what people
say about the prophet exactly.

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Outside, still
water and doe piss

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and reed straws sucking the
lagoon up inside themselves

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to share in life.

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The people say, sprinkle the
unused words to the bottom.

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The people say, we are as good
as each feather tip of brush

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grass reaching into the wind.

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The coast is exploding
all over the waves.

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Leaves are hungry.

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I can tell you about it.

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I'm trying hard to not
forget the lyric part.

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The noise you'll
welcome is a twin,

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the faster cymbals
ringing all down the hill.

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The ocean swells
in from the south,

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one wave by the arch rock,
the next on its shoulder,

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so on to the point.

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The point lifts them up.

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There are holy women somewhere
alive with your techne,

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with your name.

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Mary meant of the sea,
though nothing is still.

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