Monday, February 8, 2010

Leap into the Word

Between the probable proved there yawns
A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd,
Then we see behind us sink the ground and, worse,
Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns
Our only hope: to leap into the Word
That opens up the shuttered universe.


- Sheldon Vanauken

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