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Look, beloved child, into my eyes, see there
Your self, mirrored in that living water
From whose deep pools all images of earth are born.
See, in the gaze that holds you dear
All that you were, are, and shall be for ever
In recognition beyond time and seeming
Love knows the face that each soul turns towards heaven.
three poems of incarnation
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Who stands at my door in the storm and rain
On the threshold of being?
One who waits till you call him in
From the empty night.
Are you a stranger, out in the storm,
Or has my enemy found me out
On the edge of being?
three poems of incarnation
2. Invocation—excerpt
Child in the little boat
Come to the land
Child of the seals
Calf of the whale
Spawn of the octopus
Fledgling of cormorant
Gannet and herring-gull,
Come from the sea,
Child of the sun,
Son of the sky.
Safely pass
The mouths of the water,
The mouths of night,
The teeth of the rocks,
The mouths of the wind,
Safely float
On the dangerous waves
Of an ocean sounding
Deeper than red
Darker than violet,
Safely cross
The ground-swell of pain
Of the waves that break
On the shores of the world.