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from the gut of darkness so that we may sing, in unison with the great spirits that have journeyed the earth and touched our lives and “left a lap full of seeds”17 however much we are never quite certain if a boon awaits us. Yet, regardless, we shall reach out, we shall gather these tender seeds and pray and pray when we have lost our blue cloak, mask and sword and are swirled into the four cardinal corners of untruths, doubt and fear in our unseeming darkness:
“Life of my life...
I shall ever try to keep all untruths out of my thoughts, knowing that thou art that truth which has kindled the light of reason in my mind.
I shall ever try to drive all evils from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat
in the inmost shrine of my heart”18
(Rabindranath Tagore)
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17 Blake, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Oxford, New York, Paris: Oxford University Press, 2002.
18 Tagore, Rabindranath. Gitanjali. New York: Scribner Poetry, 1997. Poem 4.
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