Vol. 2. / 184.) Everywhere

There is everywhere so much love

But there are places where

It is despised ---

Love fills all the holes in me

And again and again ---

Runs ahead of me, even waiting

To pour in its oil ---

Love washes away the mud

The deluding flood leaves ---

Takes me with it wherever it will

We have strange ways of seeing

Not by chance are we put in its path

In loving alone the flood passed us by

If we only knew --- then we could tell

If we knew what we saw --- we could

Go inside it --- we would be --- there

We would paint it ---

And there are more ways of painting

Than one --- and more ways of loving

Than has ever been heard of . . .

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