Psalm 30:5: "Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning."
In Walker Percy’s 1961 novel The Moviegoer, the narrator Binx is a young, disillusioned, southern white man working for a brokerage firm and trying to avoid the question…
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Maggie Smith (b. 1977) is an American poet and essayist whose most recent book is Goldenrod (2021). This poem was featured in an episode of the television show “Madam Secretary” as the Secretary’s staff struggled with what to do about a world in turmoil and chaos.
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