Please find here a link to the manuscript of:
Little Book
"A Little Book Open . . ."
An Opened Person an Open Book: Revelation
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(N.B. This is the complete book... from which the first section (the introduction) was made into a tiny booklet: a chapbook; titled: "The New Butterfly & The Sound of the Seventh Angel.")
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Starlight shines upon a wild rose
Its soft loveliness belies its secret
That it kept within it a deeper gift
For that both beauty and truth were in
it
Irresistible fragrance---for it was bound with a
sting
Irrefutable truth---it was bound with grace
Unfathomable the depth of its thorn within
For unthinkable the joy of its inherent Giver
And there the terrible part of the constant question---
Will I run from the painful thing
because it offends?
But the carpet is red that bears the
feet of them
That have trodden down the grapes
Laid before those who held not back
from life
Because of death
It is better to dare than hide
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