Pentecost


Dawn Breaks over the Hudson
We know not how the day
       is to be born,
Whether in clouds of glory,
       tongues of flame,

As once at Pentecost the
       Spirit came,
Or whether imperceptibly
       as dawn;

But as the seed must grow
      into the tree,
So life is love,
     and love the end must be.

                    Kenneth E. Boulding
                    The Naylor Sonnets
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