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A carpenter thinks about the wood of the Cross.
The Carpenter’s Tale
I thought wood so beautiful,
In smoothness, in roughness
In bands and in rings, with flowerings and seedings.

But then the wonder twisted
For wood is vulnerable to the axe and the saw,
Cut and hewn, each plank carrying a man’s fingermarks...

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