On the Mystery of the Incarnation
Read 'On the Mystery of the Incarnation' by 'Denise Levertov' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
On the Mystery of the Incarnation by Denise Levertov
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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