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No man believes who, when a star falls shot, / Cries not aloud blind as a bat, / Cries not in terror when a bird is drawn / Into the quicksand feathers down,
Who does not make a wound in faith / When any light goes out, and life is death.
No man believes who cries not, god is not, / Who feels not coldness in the heat, / In the breasted summer longs not for spring,
No breasted girl, no man who, young / And green, sneers not at the old sky.
No man believes who does not wonder why.
Believe and be saved. No man believes / Who curses not what makes and saves,
No man upon this cyst of earth / Believes who does not lance his faith, / No man, no man, no man.
And this is true, no man can live / Who does not bury god in a deep grave
And then raise up the skeleton again, / No man who does not break and make, / Who in the bones finds not new faith, / Lends not flesh to ribs and neck, / Who does not break and make his final faith.