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Elizabeth Smart
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
by Elizabeth Smart
Birth of a Child in Wartime
Slapdash into the ****** pan
Is thrown the longed-for son of man.
Between the gossiping cups of tea
God attains mortality.
In the cathedral calm and cold
Kneel the erroneous-memoried old.
But in the womb's cathedral calm
The walls collapse in a birth psalm.
The blood sings from the soiled hand
The apprentice cleans at the washstand.
Undismayed by omission,
For everything, everything is won.
The proof blazes in impudence
Above the miopics of science,
Swaggering in love inviolate,
Over the uninitiate.
And over all the angels dart
Like squadrons in a war apart.
Dropping parachutes of bliss
On everything that is.
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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
by Elizabeth Smart
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Elizabeth Smart
1913 - 1986
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1913 - 1986
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