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Your Unsayable Name: it covers all the earth<\/span>
\n<\/span>And your presence extends ever outward<\/span>
\n<\/span>From the furthest conceivable point\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Out of the mouths of babes<\/span>
\n<\/span>Who speak only wordless wandering words<\/span>
\n<\/span>You fashion your incomprehensible power<\/span>
\n<\/span>That gathers into silence all opposition<\/span>
\n<\/span>All that pressure to get in and destroy\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When I behold the night sky, the work of your fingers<\/span>
\n<\/span>The bright moon and the many-layered stars which you\u00a0<\/span>have established<\/span>
\n<\/span>I think:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A woman is so frail and you remember her<\/span>
\n<\/span>A man so small and you think of him\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet<\/span>
\n<\/span>In you woman and man become as angels<\/span>
\n<\/span>Crowned with a luminous presence<\/span>
\n<\/span>And you have given them care for the works of your hands<\/span>
\n<\/span>Placed the solid growing earth under their feet\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Flocks of birds and herds of deer<\/span>
\n<\/span>Oxen and sheep and goats and cows<\/span>
\n<\/span>Soaring birds and darting fishes<\/span>
\n<\/span>All that swims the paths of the sea\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

O you whom I am ever addressing<\/span>
\n<\/span>Your unsayable named covers heaven and earth<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

From: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms<\/em> (Penguin, 2002), by Norman Fischer – poet, author, and Zen Buddhist priest.<\/span><\/p>\n

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