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I	A
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Sun blazed over Romsley a livid rain scarp	B
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XIII	C
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Whose lives are hidden in God Whose	C
Who can now tell what was taken or where	D
or how or whether it was received	E
how ditched divested clamped sifted over	F
laid raked over grassed over spread around	G
rotted down with leafmould accepted	H
as civic concrete reinforceable	I
base cinderblocks	C
tipped into Danube Rhine Vistula dredged up	J
with the Baltic and the Pontic sludge	K
committed in absentia to solemn elevation	L
Trauermusik musique fun bre funeral	I
music for male and female	I
voices ringingly a cappella	I
made for double string choirs congregated brass	C
choice performers on baroque trumpets hefting	M
like glassblowers inventions	C
of supreme order	F
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XIV	N
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As to bad faith Malebranche might argue	M
it rests with inattention Stupidity	O
is not admissible However the status	C
of apprehension remains at issue	M
Some qualities are best	P
left unrecognized Needless to say	C
unrecognized is not	Q
unacknowledged Unnamed is not nameless	C
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XVII	N
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If the gospel is heard all else follows	C
the scattering the diaspora	I
the shtetlach ash pits pits of indigo dye	A
Penitence can be spoken of it is said	R
but is itself beyond words	C
even broken speech presumes Those Christian Jews	C
of the first Church huddled sabbath survivors	C
keepers of the word silent inside twenty years	C
doubly outcast even so I would remember	F
the scattering the diaspora	I
We do not know the saints	C
His mercy is greater even than his wisdom	S
If the gospel is heard all else follows	C
We shall rise again clutching our wounds	C
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XXXV	N
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Even now I tell myself there is a language	K
to which I might speak and which	T
would rightly hear me	O
responding with eloquence in its turn	U
negotiating sense without insult	V
given or injury taken	L
Familiar to those who already know it	W
elsewhere as justice	C
it is met also in the form of silence	C
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XXIX	C
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Rancorous narcissistic old sod what	X
makes him go on We thought hoped rather	F
he might be dead Too bad So how	Y
much more does he have of injury time	Z
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XL	I
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For wordly read worldly for in equity inequity	O
for religious read religiose for distinction	L
detestation Take accessible to mean	A2
acceptable accommodating openly servile	I
Is that right Missis or is that right I don t	O
care what I say do I	A
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XLI	I
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For iconic priesthood read worldly pique and ambition	L
Change insightfully caring to pruriently intrusive	N
Delete chastened and humbled Insert humiliated	H
Interpret slain in the spirit as browbeaten to exhaustion	L
For hardness of heart read costly dislike of cant	B2
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XLII	I
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Excuse me excuse me I did not	Q
say the pain is lifting I said the pain is in	C2
the lifting No please forget it	W
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XLIII	I
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This is quite dreadful he s become obsessed	P
There you go there you go narrow it down to obsession	L
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LI	I
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Whatever may be meant by moral landscape	D2
it is for me increasingly a terrain	E2
seen in cross section igneous sedimentary	I
conglomerate metamorphic rock	M
strata in which particular grace	C
individual love decency endurance	C
are traceable across the faults	C
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LII	I
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Admittedly at times this moral landscape	D2
to my exasperated ear emits	C
archaic burrings like a small high fenced	F2
electricity sub station of uncertain age	G2
in a field corner where the flies	C
gather and old horses shake their sides	C
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LXVI	N
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Christ has risen yet again to their	D
ritual supplication It seems weird	H2
that the comedy never self destructs	C
Actually it is strengthened if	N
attenuation is strength Donne	L
said as much of gold Come back	M
Donne I forgive you and lovely Herbert	I2
But what strange guild is this	C
that practises daily	I
synchronized genuflection and takes pride	J2
in hazing my Jewish wife If Christ	K2
be not risen Christians are petty	I
temple schismatics justly	I
cast out of the law Worse things	C
have befallen Israel But since he is	C
risen he is risen even for these	C
high handed underlings of self	N
worship who as by obedience	C
proclaim him risen indeed	L2
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LXVII	N
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Instruct me further in your travail	I
blind interpreter Suppose I cannot	Q
unearth what it was they buried research	M2
is not anamnesis Nor is this a primer	F
of innocence exactly Did the centurion	L
see nothing irregular before the abnormal	I
light seared his eyeballs Why do I	A
take as my gift a wounded and wounding	M
introspection The rule is clear enough last	N2
alleluias forte followed by indifferent	O2
coffee and fellowship	P2
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LXIX	C
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What choice do you have These are false questions	C
Fear is your absolute yet in each feature	F
infinitely variable Manichean beyond dispute	Q2
for you alone the skeletal maple a loose wire	F
tapping the wind	R2
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LXX	C
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Active virtue that which shall contain	E2
its own passion in the public weal	I
do you follow or can you at least	S2
take the drift of the thing The struggle	I
for a noble vernacular this	C
did not end with Petrarch But where is it	W
Where has it got us Does it stop in our case	C
with Dryden or perhaps	C
Milton s political sonnets the cherished stock	M
hacked into ransom and ruin the voices	C
of distinction far back indistinct	T2
Still I m convinced that shaping	M
voicing are types of civic action Or slightly	I
to refashion this that Wordsworth s two	M
Prefaces stand with his great tract	U2
on the Convention of Cintra witnessing	M
to the praesidium in the sacred name	V2
of things betrayed Intrinsic value	M
I am somewhat less sure of It seems	C
implicate with active virtue but I cannot	Q
say how precisely Partaking of both	W2
fact and recognition it must be therefore	X2
in effect at once agent and predicate	Y2
imponderables brought home	Z2
to the brute mass and detail of the world	A3
there by some to be pondered	B3
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XCVI	N
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Ignorant assured there comes to us a voice	C
Unchallengeable of the foundations	C
distinct authority devoted	C3
to indistinction With what proximity	I
to justice stands the record of mischance	C
heroic hit or miss the air	D
so full of flak and tracer legend says	C
you pray to live unnoticed Mr Ives	C
took Emersonian self reliance the whole	I
way on that Melville half immolated	C3
rebuilt the pyre Hoist some time later	F
stumbled on dharma What can I say	C
At worst and best a blind ennoblement	C3
flood water hunched shouldering at the weir	D3
the hatred that is in the nature of love	N
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CXVIII	N
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By default as it so happens here we have	N
good and bad angels caught burning	M
themselves characteristic antiphons	C
and here the true and the false	C
shepherds discovered	C3
already deep into their hollow debate	C3
Is that all No add spinners of fine	E3
calumny confectioners of sugared	C3
malice add those who find sincerity	C3
in heartless weeping Add the pained	C3
painful clowns brinksmen of perdition	E3
Sidney best realizer and arguer	D3
of music that divine	E3
striker upon the senses steady my	A
music to your Augustinian grace notes	C
with your high craft of fret I am glad	C3
to have learned how it goes	C
with you and with Italianate	C3
Hebraic Milton your voices pitched exactly	C3
somewhere between Laus Deo and defiance	C
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CXIX	C
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And yes bugger you MacSikker et al I do	C3
mourn and resent your desolation of learning	M
Scientia that enabled if it did not secure	D3
forms of understanding far from despicable	I
and furthest now as they are most despised	C3
By understanding I understand diligence	C
and attention appropriately understood	C3
as actuated self knowledge a daily acknowledgement	C3
of what is owed the dead	C3
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CXX	C
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As with the Gospels which it is allowed to resemble	I
in Measure for Measure moral uplift	C3
is not the issue Scrupulosity diffidence	C
shrill spirituality conviction free expression	E3
come off as poorly as deceit or lust	C3
The ethical motiv is so we may hazard	C3
opportunism redemptive and redeemed	C3
case hardened on case	C