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    Still, I Taste the Dawn
    Still, I Taste the Dawn
    Still, I Taste the Dawn
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    Still, I Taste the Dawn

    By John Evans

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    Still, I Taste the Dawn journeys towards a union through suffering, towards a glimpse of heaven, the presence of Divine Love, while experiencing the homeward odyssey, our grail-quest that comprises this pilgrimage we call life. The faces of the characters in these poems may be quite different, and not all of them may know precisely whom they are to look for in a theological sense. Some are seeking respite from the battlefield, others, the memory of a romantic interest, others still more, the tranquility of a society inspired and led by fraternal love. But in all of these glimpses is a universal hunger for “The Dawn” or a Eucharistic encounter with total love, transcendent love, and dare we say, incarnate love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateDec 9, 2021
    ISBN9781716025013
    Still, I Taste the Dawn
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    John Evans

    Dr. John Evans was the founding director of the Population, Health, and Nutrition Department of the World Bank; the former chair of the Board of Directors of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1987 to 1995; the founding dean of the McMaster University Medical School; and the president of the University of Toronto from 1972 to 1978. He remains active in work supporting non-governmental organizations in developing countries.

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