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Levertov,
Denise
. British-born American poet; associated with the Black Mountain poets
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On the Mystery of the Incarnation
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Written by:
Denise
Levertov
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It's when we face for a moment
the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know
the taint in our own selves, that awe
cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart:
not to a flower, not to a dolphin,
to no innocent form
but to this creature vainly sure
it and no other is god-like, God
(out of compassion for our ugly
failure to evolve) entrusts,
as guest, as brother,
the Word.
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