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Dark Mercy
“Hast thy dark descending and most art merciful then.”Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland You who are both Beginning and Ending Though You...
Cutting Down Chrysanthemums
“What we call the beginning is often the endAnd to make an end is to make a beginning.The end is where we start from.” ...
Ascension Day: Facing East
“Between the essence and the descentFalls the shadow.”—T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men “. . . All things proceed to a joyful consummation.”—T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral...
