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Recitation

This is the Word of God. If you recite

It before others, be sure that your voice

Is sweet and melodious: not mere noise

From an odious mouth drilled in despite.

Let the lips which shape His language of Light

Sing not just to sense, but weigh divine choice

Of syllable and word, whose divine poise

Holds the soul in its journey toward sight.

Many have fainted, hearing aloud these sounds.

Many have converted. Let me faint, too:

Let me feel His music as it resounds

In my deepest hearing, as it moves through

Sense, psyche, will and act. You who recite:

Make sound sing in my soul, till it takes flight.