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And that was a
rare, religious note

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being struck there by Rilke.

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So I thought, before the
paganism kicks in firmly,

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I'll read something
along similar lines.

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This is a poem that is
prompted by a marvelous

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fresco in Florence by Fra
Angelico in San Marco.

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And it's that familiar
scene, the Annunciation.

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He has come from the
garden leaving no shadow,

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no footprint in the dew.

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They hold each other's
gaze at the point

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of balance, everything
streaming towards this moment.

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Streaming away.

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A word will set the
seed of life and death.

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The overshadowing of this
girl by a feathered dark.

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But not yet.

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Not quite yet.

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How will she remember the
silence of that endless moment

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or the end when it all
began, the first of seven

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joys before the seven sorrows?

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She will remember the after-song
because she is only human.

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One day she'll wake with wings
or wake and find them gone.

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