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    This poem is based on Mary's words "My soul magnifies God" from the Bible. It describes the poet's feeling of quiet joy that calls forth the expanse of their soul. Their soul is called to go singing through the world, to gently rock the cradles of death without fear, to collect rain in spread hands and spill it like laughter. It is called to touch and carry suffering, age, and dense flesh, and to bear into the world a place where light will glisten on every wing, blade of grass, and hair, and shine among the turnings of every wave, glorifying the unfolding of every life and human hand.

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    This poem is based on Mary's words "My soul magnifies God" from the Bible. It describes the poet's feeling of quiet joy that calls forth the expanse of their soul. Their soul is called to go singing through the world, to gently rock the cradles of death without fear, to collect rain in spread hands and spill it like laughter. It is called to touch and carry suffering, age, and dense flesh, and to bear into the world a place where light will glisten on every wing, blade of grass, and hair, and shine among the turnings of every wave, glorifying the unfolding of every life and human hand.

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    Hutchins, Christina - Magnificat

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    This poem is based on Mary's words "My soul magnifies God" from the Bible. It describes the poet's feeling of quiet joy that calls forth the expanse of their soul. Their soul is called to go singing through the world, to gently rock the cradles of death without fear, to collect rain in spread hands and spill it like laughter. It is called to touch and carry suffering, age, and dense flesh, and to bear into the world a place where light will glisten on every wing, blade of grass, and hair, and shine among the turnings of every wave, glorifying the unfolding of every life and human hand.

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    Magnificat

    by Christina Hutchins
    My soul magnifies God. Luke 1:46
    What shall I do
    with this quiet joy?
    It calls forth the expanse
    of my soul, calls
    it forth to go singing
    through the world,
    calls it forth
    to rock the cradles of death
    gently
    and without fear,
    to collect the rain
    in my spread hands
    and spill it
    like laughter,
    calls it forth
    to touch and carry
    her suffering, his age,
    our dense flesh,
    to bear into this world
    a place
    where light will glisten
    the edge of every wing
    and blade of grass,
    shine along every hair on every head,
    gleam among the turnings of every wave,
    glorify
    the turning open of each life,
    each human hand.

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