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The Convert

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After one moment when I bowed my head     And the whole world turned over and came upright,     And I came out where the old road shone white,     I walked the ways and heard what all men said,     Forests of tongues, like autumn leaves unshed,     Being not unlovable but strange and light;     Old riddles and new creeds, not in despite     But softly, as men smile about the dead.     The sages have a hundred maps to give     That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree,     They rattle reason out through many a sieve     That stores the sand and lets the gold go free:     And all these things are less than dust to me     Because my name is Lazarus and I live.

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