Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardo…

Thomas Merton
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Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken. ✨ Thomas Merton (1980). The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, p.351, New Directions Publishing
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Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken. ✨ Thomas Merton (1980). The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, p.351, New Directions Publishing

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