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In the silent breaking
of the long spent night,
With the quiet coming
of the dawn’s pure light,
Your senses are illumined, new,
you hear Truth in your heart.
Mind’s seeing is our seeing. Look!
A world here, not apart.
Love quickens you in new-found light,
revealed in grateful prayer.
Your eyes and ears are opening
to what was always there.
The lie has not usurped the day;
it’s not as it would seem.
You stand awake and free and fair,
you never were the dream.
— Anna Stapleton Henson
