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Tables of Contents for The Soul's Refinement
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I Lay my Hand Upon my Mouth, Dear Lord
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Lord, He was Meant for Her, and She for Him
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Lord, Were I not a Poet, But Myself
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That I May not Fulfill my Life's Chief Aim
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Columbus Day! It is a Day of Mourning
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So, to the Lion's Den Must I Return
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Lord, I Have Lost All Faith. The Insult I
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This Day Let Man and Woman Here Be Joined
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Lord God, While I Support Jomo Kenyatta
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Enough of Pain! Let me Lie Down and Rest
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Like Tantalus Tormented, Father I
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Father, Two Interviews I've Had, for Jobs
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One Feature of the Olden, Tribal Ways
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Again, Lord, While I'm not Inclined to Favor
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Father, How is it, While they were Ransacking
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Father, we are of Africa, and of
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My Beautiful, my Lovely, my First-Love
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Money was not the Reason you Loved me
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Nikhilananda's Words, so Pure, Serene
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The Rain Unceasing, Beating. Father, Father
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Father, in Bygone Days Some Men Have Prized
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Father, Unto Thy Hands do we Commit
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Here is the Method: Utilize the Tao
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To Live by Non-Intention, or Wu-Wei
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We are Inheritors of these Diverse
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We are of Africa, and of the Land
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The Geese were on the Pond; the Ducks and Gulls
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Borges Declared, that he was not Surprised
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Let us Learn from Each Other; What is Good
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The Need for Masculine Prerogative
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Muhammad's Slaughter of the Jews Established
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Father, Let me not be Misunderstood
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The Question is not one that Man ''Abjure
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Yet, Father, Boys and Girls when they are Born
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Father, While I Acknowledge Jesus Christ
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Lord, While I Give Respect to Priest and Pope
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Colette, How Beautiful you Looked to me
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Paul Spake that in Christ Jesus There was No
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Father, My First Love, Except for that One
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Lord God, My Will I Utterly Relinquish
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Yet Krishna Spoke the Truth, and so we Must
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The Honor of a Woman Must Depend
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Father, the Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith
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Prophets Have Made Mistakes; Have Been Exempt
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Refinement of the Soul and Cultivation
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A Papal Proclamation Now Accepts
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In this America---Nay, Let us Say
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No Longer Let a Man Derive his Worth
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This Time it was my Turn, Lord God, to Be
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Yet Saul, Upon the Journey to Damascus
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Get Thee Behind me, Satan! so I Say
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Satan Does not Exist, But that he Dwells
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Though I was Born in Poverty, and in
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Forgotten and Forlorn, so I was Once
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Thou Knowest Best, O Lord. I Almost Made
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Although the Road be Hard that I Must Walk
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We are not Destitute, O God; While we
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Colette, Forgive me that I have so Written
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O, Holy Star of Bethlehem, Upon
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No, Earthly Power I'll Not; Not Seek, my Lord
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Lord, if I Go with Thee, if Thou Admit
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Yet Dickinson, O Lord, who my Life Saved
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When David, on the Sabbath, and his Men
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That Women Mutilate Themselves to Hang
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Yet, Father, She was Happy with the Hat
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``The World Will have to be changed, not the Past.''
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``It Takes a Village,'' Lord, has Been the Phrase
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Lord, Arbitration in Dispute, Instead
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Ring ye the Bells, ye Young Men of this Town
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Today, I am Baptized. O Father, Let
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Father, Yet I Bow Down Before the Feet
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Father, I have Seen Thy Temple Restored
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Enough! Es Ist Vollbracht! Let's Blame the Jews
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Father, in Stephen's Martyrdom no Small
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Lord, at that Table, Simon, Who was Known
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Father in Heaven, as we Face Tomorrow
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Acknowledgements
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Index of First Lines
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