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PROGRESS OF LOVE: COUNSEL FOR DESPERATION, by                    
First Line: Abandon rites that never may atone
Last Line: Become bright mystery of flesh and bone.
Subject(s): Love


Abandon rites that never may atone
For venial sins against this holy ghost:
No ritual performed at any cost,
Nothing you do or may not do, no moan,
Has power to move a spirit trapped in stone.
Wait through long days, long nights, till a hoar frost
Sparkles upon your heart, till you have lost
Knowledge of time, have left tiredness alone.

When the last tether on a phantom hope
Has spun itself to final nothingness,
And pain, through constancy, has lost its scope,
Open your eyes... lift up your heart; assess
In quiet the shy miracle of stone
Become bright mystery of flesh and bone.





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