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“Set me as seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm,” the poet says in the Song of Solomon, “for love is strong as death.”
the family was together without being in a hurry.”
Why do I so often behave as though there will be unlimited days to sit quietly with my own beloveds, listening to birdsong and wind in the pines?
We could love you if we reminded ourselves that no creature is made up only of poison, that no life is only a source of irritation or pain.
World, world, forgive our ignorance and our foolish fears. Absolve us of our anger and our error. In your boundless gift for renewal, disregard our undeserving. For no reason but the hope that one day we will know the beauty of unloved things, accept our unuttered thanks.
In those days, no one would have thought to keep a wondering child away from the fields or the woods.
