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Sometimes I wonder why we try to prove,
You with your silence and I with my speech,
That we have found a further faith than love.
You with your silence and I with my speech,
That we have found a further faith than love.
Sometimes I wonder why we try to reach,
You with closed eyes and I with straining sight,
A deeper cavern, a more distant beach
You with closed eyes and I with straining sight,
A deeper cavern, a more distant beach
Than those we knew before we sought a light
Too pale and stern for mortal fashioning,
Before we sought to find the infinite,
Too pale and stern for mortal fashioning,
Before we sought to find the infinite,
Sometimes I wonder why we do not bring
A smaller chain upon our spirits need
Than a rejection of life's blossoming.
A smaller chain upon our spirits need
Than a rejection of life's blossoming.
Sometimes I wonder why we do not heed
Our hearts' disdained entanglements of song,
With banished beauty, singing through a reed
Our hearts' disdained entanglements of song,
With banished beauty, singing through a reed
To show the loveliness where we belong;
Till in the strength of our recaptured weakness,
We burn the empty freedoms of the strong.
Till in the strength of our recaptured weakness,
We burn the empty freedoms of the strong.
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