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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Excerpts from The Mystery of Death by Ladislaus Boros, English translation copyright © 1965, by Bums & Oates Ltd., published by Herder and Herder, New York, and used by permission of the Crossroad Publishing Co. Excerpt from John Cassian, translation by Colm Luibheid © 1985 by Colm Luibheid. Used by permission of Paulist Press. Excerpts from “Little Gidding” and “East Coker” in Four Quartets, copyright 1943 by T. S. Eliot and renewed 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company. “Stages” from The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) by Hermann Hesse, translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston, English language translation © 1969 by Henry Holt and Co., Inc., reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, Inc. “Shadows” by D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence, edited by V. de Sola Pinto & F. W. Roberts, copyright © 1964, 1971 by Angelo Ravagli and C. M. Weekley, Executors of the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli, used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. Excerpt from Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by J. B. Leish-man/Stephen Spender, translation copyright 1939 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., renewed © 1967 by Stephen Spender and J. B. Leishman, reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.