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About suffering about adoration the old masters	A
Disagree When someone suffers no one else eats	B
Or walks or opens the window no one breathes	C
As the sufferers watch the sufferer	D
In St Sebastian Mourned by St Irene	E
The flame of one torch is the only light	F
All the eyes except the maidservant's she weeps	G
And covers them with a cloth are fixed on the shaft	H
Set in his chest like a column St Irene's	I
Hands are spread in the gesture of the Madonna	J
Revealing accepting what she does not understand	K
Her hands say Lo Behold	L
Beside her a monk's hooded head is bowed his hands	M
Are put together in the work of mourning	N
It is as if they were still looking at the lance	O
Piercing the side of Christ nailed on his cross	P
The same nails pierce all their hands and feet the same	Q
Thin blood mixed with water trickles from their sides	R
The taste of vinegar is on every tongue	S
That gasps My God my God why hast Thou forsaken me	T
They watch they are the one thing in the world	U
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So earlier everything is pointed	V
In van der Goes' Nativity toward the naked	V
Shining baby like the needle of a compass	W
The different orders and sizes of the world	U
The angels like Little People perched in the rafters	A
Or hovering in mid air like hummingbirds	X
The shepherds so big and crude so plainly adoring	N
The medium sized donor his little family	T
And their big patron saints the Virgin who kneels	X
Before her child in worship the Magi out in the hills	X
With their camels they ask directions and have pointed out	Y
By a man kneeling the true way the ox	X
And the donkey two heads in the manger	D
So much greater than a human head who also adore	Z
Even the offerings a sheaf of wheat	A2
A jar and a glass of flowers are absolutely still	B2
In natural concentration as they take their part	C2
In the salvation of the natural world	U
The time of the world concentrates	X
On this one instant far off in the rocks	X
You can see Mary and Joseph and their donkey	T
Coming to Bethlehem on the grassy hillside	D2
Where their flocks are grazing the shepherds gesticulate	D2
In wonder at the star and so many hundreds	X
Of years in the future the donor his wife	E2
And their children are kneeling looking everything	N
That was or will be in the world is fixed	D2
On its small helpless human center	D
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After a while the masters show the crucifixion	F2
In one corner of the canvas the men come to see	T
What is important see that it is not important	D2
The new masters paint a subject as they please	X
And Veronese is prosecuted by the Inquisition	F2
For the dogs playing at the feet of Christ	D2
The earth is a planet among galaxies	X
Later Christ disappears the dogs disappear in abstract	D2
Understanding without adoration the last master puts	X
Colors on canvas a picture of the universe	X
In which a bright spot somewhere in the corner	D
Is the small radioactive planet men called Earth	G2

Randall Jarrell

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