Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours Yours are the eyes with which he looks with Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good... Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
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All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in it.
~ William Carlos William, "Winter Trees" in SOUR GRAPES: A BOOK OF POEMS