Coming and going by the dance, I see That what I am not is … - Sydney Carter

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Coming and going by the dance, I see That what I am not is a part of me. Dancing is all that I can ever trust, The dance is all I am, the rest is dust. I will believe my bones and live by what Will go on dancing when my bones are not.

Sydney Carter

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Sydney Carter (6 May 1915 – 13 March 2004) was an English Quaker poet and songwriter.

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Alternative Names: Sydney Bertram Carter

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So what do you believe in? Nothing fixed or final, all the while I travel a miracle. I doubt, and yet I walk upon the water.

I danced on the Sabbath And I cured the lame; The holy people Said it was a shame. They whipped and they stripped And they hung me on high, And they left me there On a Cross to die.

They buried my body And they thought I'd gone, But I am the Dance, And I still go on.

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