Pardon all runnersAll speechless alien windsAll mad waters.Pardon their impulsesTheir wild attitudesTheir young flights their reticence.When a message has no clothes onHow can it be spoken.

Pardon all runners
All speechless alien winds
All mad waters.

Pardon their impulses
Their wild attitudes
Their young flights their reticence.

When a message has no clothes on
How can it be spoken.
Thomas Merton

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Pardon all runnersAll speechless alien windsAll mad waters.Pardon their impulsesTheir wild attitudesTheir young flights their reticence.When a message has no clothes onHow can it be spoken. Thomas Merton

Pardon all runners
All speechless alien winds
All mad waters.

Pardon their impulses
Their wild attitudes
Their young flights their reticence.

When a message has no clothes on
How can it be spoken.
Thomas Merton