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A Poem For Sunday

By The Daily Dish

Dec 5 2010, 12:53 PM ET

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"Psalm" by Mark Jarman first appeared in The Atlantic in June, 1997:

Lord of dimensions and the dimensionless,
Wave and particle, all and none,

Who lets us measure the wounded atom,
Who lets us doubt all measurement,

When in this world we betray you
Let us be faithful in another.

(Image of steel workers at Ittehad Steel Mill in Islamabad, Pakistan on November 30, 2010. by Carl De Souza /AFP/Getty Images)



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