While the burning fish is tracing his arcnear the cypress, beneath the highest blue of all,and the blind boy flies away in the white stone,and the ivory poem of the green cicadabeats and reverberates in the elm,let us give honor to the Lordthe black mark of his good handwho has arranged for silence in all this noise. Honor to the god of distance and of absence,ff the anchor in the seathe open seaHe frees us from the worldits everywherehe opens roads for us to walk on. With our cup of darkness filled to the brim,with our heart that always knows some hunger,let us give honor to the Lord who created the zeroand carved our thought out of the block of faith.
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About Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado was a 19th-century Spanish poet. Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98. His work, initially modernist, evolved towards an intimate form of symbolism with romantic traits. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Faith — Reflections on belief, spirituality, and trust in the unseen