The Proud Man
The humble man receives praise the way a clean window takes
the light of the sun.' Thomas Merton
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The proud man
is like a dirty window.
He cannot permit to pass
the morning's glory;
whereas the humble man
dissolves in the light
of the rising sun
like a freshly scrubbed window.
poem by Steven Federle
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