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This resource relating to Psalm 104:24-35 provides a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) highlighting the vastness of eternity and a poem by Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) highlighting the relationship between humanity and nature.
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
CLASSIC POEM:
As if the Sea should part
Emily Dickinson
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As if the Sea should part
And show a further Sea —
And that — a further — and the Three
But a presumption be —
Of Periods of Seas —
Unvisited of Shores —
Themselves the Verge of Seas to be —
Eternity — is Those —
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Leviathan
Pablo Neruda
SNIPPET:
Southward, there crackled a holocaust, black
With your planet’s expulsion, the domains
Of your silence that moved in the algae
And jostled the lump of the ages.
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Key Scriptures:
Psalm 104:24-35
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Day of Pentecost
Date:
Wednesday, June 1, 2022