<h2><SPAN name="page43"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>CERTITUDE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">There</span> was a time
when I was confident<br/>
That God’s stupendous mystery of birth<br/>
Was mine to know. The wonder of it lent<br/>
New ecstasy and glory to the earth.<br/>
I heard no voice that uttered it aloud,<br/>
Nor was it written for me on a scroll;<br/>
Yet, if alone or in the common crowd,<br/>
I felt myself a consecrated soul.<br/>
My child leaped in its dark and silent room<br/>
And cried, ‘I am,’ though all unheard by men.<br/>
So leaps my spirit in the body’s gloom<br/>
And cries, ‘I live! I shall be born again.’<br/>
Elate with certitude towards death I go,<br/>
Nor doubt, nor argue, since I know, I know!</p>
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