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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460000" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Benediction</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Read this poem only aloud<br>read it as slowly and with such solemn dignity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if it were the whole great human race<br>declaring itself to be truly great</div><div style="margin:10px 0">read it as if it were<br>as indeed it is</div><div style="margin:10px 0">not words but a great sounding bell<br>and you are that great bell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so large a bell so low its boom<br>that it is more vibration than a sound</div><div style="margin:10px 0">struck in a temple courtyard<br>by a robed monk so full of love</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that he merges into love itself<br>every time he sounds the bell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and as its sound now travels up <br>into the clear mountain air</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the goatherds and the goats hear in its sound<br>the meaning of their life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in the fields the workers raise themselves<br>and know what blessing is</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in the valley the silence after each stroke<br>becomes more real</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as the echo fades <br>and the air knows itself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this poem is the sound of the human heart<br>listening to itself beyond all words</div><div style="margin:10px 0">hearing praise and gratitude and love<br>knowing themselves in stillness for what they are</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this poem is what is beyond all words<br>smiling sorrowing as it seeks for words</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as it vibrates out into the silence<br>the wonder of the unspoken</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the magic of all that’s yet unmanifest<br>the thoughts yet to be thought</div><div style="margin:10px 0">hear in this bell the sound that tells to all<br>that there is enough love</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in one single human heart<br>to nourish the whole world</div><div style="margin:10px 0">hear this bell sounding aloud<br>sound out eternal in your soul</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[work in progress]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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read it as slowly and with such solemn dignity

as if it were the whole great human race
declaring itself to be truly great

read it as if it were
as indeed it is

not words but a great sounding bell
and you are that grea..."></div>
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