O gather up the brokenness
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And bring it to me now
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The fragrance of those promises
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You never dared to vow
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The splinters that you carry
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The cross you left behind
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Come healing of the body
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Come healing of the mind
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And let the heavens hear it
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The penitential hymn
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Come healing of the spirit
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Come healing of the limb
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Behold the gates of mercy
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In arbitrary space
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And none of us deserving
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The cruelty or the grace
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O solitude of longing
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Where love has been confined
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Come healing of the body
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Come healing of the mind
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O see the darkness yielding
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That tore the light apart
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Come healing of the reason
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Come healing of the heart
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O troubled dust concealing
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An undivided love
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The Heart beneath is teaching
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To the broken Heart above
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O let the heavens falter
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And let the earth proclaim:
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Come healing of the Altar
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Come healing of the Name
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O longing of the branches
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To lift the little bud
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O longing of the arteries
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To purify the blood
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And let the heavens hear it
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The penitential hymn
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Come healing of the spirit
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Come healing of the limb
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O let the heavens hear it
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The penitential hymn
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Come healing of the spirit
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Come healing of the limb
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Come Healing
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| Leonard Cohen |
