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In continuity with last blog………..

 

The dove descending breaks the air

With flame of incandescent terror

Of which the tongues declare

The one discharge from sin and error.

The only hope or else despair

Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre-

To be redeemed from fire by fire

 

Who then devised the torment?  Love.

Love is the unfamiliar Name

Behind the hands that wove

The intolerable shirt of flame

Which human power can not remove.

We only live, only suspire

Consumed by either fire or fire.

 

– T.S Eliot, ‘Little Gidding’

 

 

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