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There is no new thing in God’s sight. (The day, the moon, are new to us.) Play a new song to the Lord, Glass full enough to pass along   Without a spill.   Such ink made sky black, Kissed stars through pinholes, caught Their night tears in a jar, each drop an ocean.

“Let be there was”—the deep mind stamped A pattern on the nothing of before What was to be stood forth: When time, one chord, struck there   To now. Whatever   One possesses Is a gift from elsewhere. Inspiration comes unbidden.   One guessed At what’s inside our nature. Truth stays hidden, feeds upon   The question.   Some try to steal A march on death, drown fear in senses. Some chosen can believe the soul is real.

—Laurance Wieder is the author of Words to God’s Music: A New Book of Psalms (Eerdmans), the only book in the Library of Congress featuring a quartet of back-cover endorsers consisting of Paul Auster, the late Tom Disch, Luci Shaw, and R. L. Stine.

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